Dissociation between Cerebellar and Cerebral Neural Activities in Humans with Long-Term Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Table 1

Characteristics of long-term bilateral sensorineural hearing loss patients and healthy controls.

Characteristic	SNHL patients ()	Healthy controls ()	value
Age (years)			0.826
Gender (male : female)	14 : 7	10 : 11	0.212
BMI			0.921
Education level (years)			0.590
Hearing loss duration (years)		NA	NA
Mean PTA_left			<0.001
Mean PTA_right			<0.001
Mean PTA_bilateral			<0.001
MMSE			0.663
SAS			0.006
HAMD			0.706
SDMT			0.540
AVLT-5 min			0.273
AVLT-20 min			0.697

Data are represented as . ; . SNHL: sensorineural hearing loss; BMI: body mass index; PTA: pure tone audiometry; MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination; AVLT: Auditory Verbal Learning Test; SDMT: symbol digit modalities test; SAS: Self-Rating Anxiety Scale; HAMD: Hamilton Depression Scale.