Changes in cortical auditory evoked potentials in response to auditory training in elderly hearing aid users

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-892609/v1

Objective

To compare the cortical auditory evoked potential responses pre-and post-Auditory Musical Training associated with hearing aid adaptation in elderly people with presbycusis. Design: this is a prospective, randomized, single-blind study. Study Sample: eight presbiacusis elderly people between 65 and 80 years, new hearing aid users, divided into two groups participated in the study: Hearing Aid Group: use of hearing aid; and Auditory Training Group: use of hearing aid in addition to musical auditory training for 16 sessions. All participants were submitted to cortical auditory evoked potential tests with verbal stimulation in two different moments: Initial assessment, carried out before hearing aid adaptation and auditory training, and after three months, final assessment at the end of the auditory training sessions. All participants were adapted bilaterally with digital mini hearing aids. Results: There was a decrease in the P3a latency component for the Auditory Training Group when initial and final assessment were compared. Conclusion: There was a change in the CAEP in elderly people with presbycusis in response to the Musical Auditory Training associated with the use of hearing aids in elderly people with presbycusis.

Health Policy

Geriatrics & Gerontology

Physical Medicine & Rehab

Presbycusis

Auditory training

Neural plasticity

Hearing aid

Auditory Evoked Potentials

Auditory rehabilitation

Hearing loss associated with aging - presbycusis - affects not only the peripheral auditory system; but changes in the anatomy and physiology of the central auditory system of the elderly can also occur, in addition to the changes caused by the aging process itself [1].

Even in mild hearing loss, a fundamental impact on the organization and functioning of the auditory cortex follows, as there is the recruitment of other sensory systems, such as the somatosensory system in an attempt to regulate the deficient neural processing of auditory information [2].

The impacts resulting from hearing deprivation in the elderly can be reduced with the appropriate intervention for hearing loss [2, 3].

Hearing rehabilitation may include hearing aid adaptation and auditory training, which is essential for the development of central auditory skills, such as auditory closure, auditory figure-ground, temporal ordering (duration pattern and frequency pattern), binaural separation and binaural integration [4].

The objective of auditory training, according to Bamford [5] is to develop or rehabilitate auditory skills, necessary for understanding sounds. Auditory training does not improve peripheral auditory sensitivity, that is, there is no change in tonal thresholds. However, this intervention proposal through auditory stimulation is directly related to brain reorganization through patients’ Central Auditory Nervous System (CANS) plasticity, improving attention and perception of more complex sounds, such as speech, allowing the individual to experience different sounds more clearly [6, 7].

Chermak and Musiek [4] state that in the elderly population the neural substrate is also subject to changes after auditory training, despite the plasticity potential reduction of the nervous system at this stage of life. For this reason, training strategies provide more compensation than recovery.

Musical Auditory Training (MAT) is an auditory training program developed to meet the needs of elderly hearing aid users, focused mainly on the auditory skills of temporal processing - resolution and temporal ordering - and selective attention. After the MAT application in elderly hearing aid users, an improvement in temporal auditory skills was found, proven by behavioral tests, evidencing the benefit of MAT in these skills [8–10]. However, this investigation found no studies that used electrophysiological measures to assess the effects of this auditory training program on the elderly’s auditory function.

The electrophysiological measure is one of the means of investigating the functions of the central auditory pathways and has been an important instrument in monitoring the therapeutic evolution of the elderly in the auditory rehabilitation process [11, 12]. Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential (CAEP) is one of these measures and allows the assessment of cortical activities, more specifically the discrimination, integration and attention skills of the brain, involving the function of the thalamocortical and corticocortical auditory pathways, primary auditory cortex and associative cortical areas [13]. Considering the complexity of the factors that may be associated with hearing difficulties in the elderly, aging has been the subject of several studies in the area. Understanding the central auditory mechanisms involved in the auditory adaptation and rehabilitation process in this population is a challenge. Thus, this study seeks to investigate the therapeutic evolution at a central level in the elderly through Electrophysiology, more specifically the CAEP.

The hypothesis is that auditory rehabilitation through Musical Auditory Training (MAT) associated with the use of hearing aids is capable of generating changes in the auditory function in elderly people with presbycusis. If the hypothesis is confirmed, there may be a change in the clinical routine, favoring the indication of controlled auditory training programs, which added to the benefits obtained from the use of hearing aids can contribute to the full restoration of the hearing function of elderly people with difficulty in speech recognition in noise.

Objective

To compare the cortical auditory evoked potential responses pre- and post-Auditory Musical Training associated with hearing aid adaptation in elderly people with presbycusis.

The present study was a prospective, randomized, single-blind study. It was carried out after approval by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences – UNESP campus of Marília, under number 02848918.2.0000.5406, in accordance with Resolution 466/2012. To participate in the sample the patients signed a form of free and informed consent after being given information about the research.

Subject selection and sample characterization

The sample selection of the study evaluated 22 individuals; 12 individuals were excluded, according to the exclusion criteria and two dropped out during the research.

Eight individuals participated in this study, divided into 2 groups (G) by random allocation:

Hearing Aid Group (HAG): composed of four individuals who had been recently adapted with hearing aids.

Auditory Training Group (ATG): composed of four individuals recently adapted with hearing aids and who participated in an auditory training program.

The inclusion criteria for participant selection were: age equal to or over 60 years; diagnosis of bilateral, symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss, with tonal audibility threshold between 30 and 70dB HL at frequencies of 3, 4, 6, and 8 kHz and ≤ 25 dB HL at frequencies of 0.25, 0.50, 1 and 2 kHz; percentage index of speech recognition equal to or over 60%, bilaterally; complaints of difficulty understanding speech in noise; hearing aid adaption referred by an otolaryngologist.

The exclusion criteria to rule out individuals were: presence of middle ear abnormality detected by tympanometry; positive screening for cognitive impairment detected by the instrument Montreal Cognitive Assessment - Basic (MoCA-B), developed from the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) original version, developed by Ziad Nasreddine and adapted to the Brazilian population by Daniel Apolinario [14] with the objective of distinguishing between normal cognitive aging and mild cognitive impairment; absence of wave V click-stimuli evoked during the Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential (BAEP) examination for neurodiagnosis; had used hearing aids before the study; and had undergone musical training.

The individuals who participated in the study were patients from a Specialized Rehabilitation Center, thus, the hearing rehabilitation mentioned in this study follows the procedures described in the Hearing Rehabilitation Instruction of the program “Saúde sem Limite” by the National Health System from Brazil, which includes hearing aid adaptation and hearing rehabilitation [15].

The participants were new hearing aid users and were adapted bilaterally, with mini hearing aids, from the same manufacturer and with the same digital signal processing, with the same prescriptive rule NAL-NL2 and open adaptation technology, adjusted according to their individual audiograms. The gain of the hearing aids was verified through insertion gain, ensuring they were over 90% on target for all participants. The adaptation was completed in up to one month following the protocol mentioned above.

Electrophysiological assessment

The CAEP was performed using the two-channel equipment Biologic’s Evoked Potential System (EP) (Seattle, WA/USA), and free-field system FF-70 with adapter compatible with evoked potential system was calibrated according to the ANSI S3.43 1992 / ISO 7566 and ANSI S3.6 1996/ISO R389 parameters.

The potential was recorded using five copper electrodes, positioned in: Fpz the ground electrode, Fz and Cz, which were the active electrodes, in reference to electrodes A1 and A2. Each electrode impedance did not exceed 5 k ohms and did not exceed 2k ohms between them. In order to obtain wave reproducibility in a simultaneous recording of Cz and Fz, ipsilateral assembly was performed using the jumper at A2 and then at A1.

The Chart below shows the parameters used for the CAEP capture.

Chart 1. Summary of parameters used for the CAEP capture.

	Parameter
Stimulus	Mode	Bilateral - sound field (speaker positioned at one meter and 0º azimuth - centralized)
	Rate	0.9 stimuli per second
	Type	Speech: /ba/ frequent; /da/ rare
	Intensity	20 to 25 dB SL, minimum 80 dB, not over 85 dB
	Polarity	Alternated
Acquisition	Channel	2 channel
	Electrode	Fz (+), A1 (-) Cz (+), A2 (-) Jumper connected to reference inputs (-)
	Filter	0,1–30 Hz
	Signal Amplification	50.000 times
	Sampling	200 stimuli* - 80% frequent and 20% rare
	Electrode Impedance	≤ 5 Kohms
	Patient condition	Alert ignoring stimulus
* The considered number of artifacts from the total stimulus was up to 10%.

The CAEP procedure was performed on the research patients in two moments: initial assessment and reassessment after three months of hearing aid adaptation. The individuals did not use hearing aids at the time of the test. During the interval between the two assessments, ATG underwent auditory training.

Latencies and amplitudes of the P1-N1-P2-N2-P3a wave complex were analyzed. As the test was performed passively, that is, participants were not requested to identify the rare stimulus, the P3a component was analyzed, which occurs automatically in response to major differences in stimuli, whether or not the individual is responding to the stimulus sequence [16, 17].

Considering the best wave morphology, the marking was performed on the infrequent Cz trace, and the P1-N1-P2-N2 components were marked and identified in the appearance of the first three waves, at the highest peak, in sequence, in the negative - positive - negative polarities, respectively, between 50 ms and 300 ms, and the P3a component was identified after the P1-N1-P2-N2 complex, between 220 ms and 400 ms [16].

The lead researcher was responsible for the auditory training application. Electrophysiological assessments were carried out by a second invited examiner, to ensure the groups were not identified and to eliminate possible detection bias. The wave marking was carried out by two expert researchers in the area.

Auditory Training

For the auditory training, the program Treinamento Musical Auditivo®, developed by Dr. Katya Guglielmi Marcondes Freire was used, available on the website www.treinamentoauditivomusical.com.br [10]. The website also has an English version of the program. The program has eight exercises that contemplate figure-ground aspects of instrumental sounds, sound frequency and duration, directed listening, rhythm, auditory closure and memory. Each exercise has levels of difficulty to stimulate and challenge the auditory system. Each level of difficulty consists of ten exercises and the author's recommendation is that the level of difficulty should increase when the patient obtains at least seven correct answers. Each exercise was performed in two sessions, according to the following presentation order: (1) figure-ground - instrumental sounds; (2) figure-ground - sequential sounds; (3) directed listening; (4) sound duration; (5) sound frequency; (6) rhythm, (7) auditory closure; (8) audio-visual memory. MAT was applied to ATG participants in 30-minute sessions, twice a week for eight weeks totaling 16 sessions. The 24-hour interval between sessions was respected, taking into account the importance of sleep in the consolidation of auditory perceptual learning [18]. Two portable speakers coupled to a computer were used in a sound-attenuated room, at one-meter distance between them and the patient, with one speaker positioned to the left and the other one to the right of the computer, at 45º Azimuth in relation to the patient. At the beginning of all sessions, the hearing aids were checked for functioning and the hearing aid setting was maintained during the training sessions, with an adaptive directional microphone and algorithms on, in order to maintain the listening conditions the participant would be routinely exposed.

Statistical analysis

To analyze the main group and time effect, and the group and time interaction, a mixed ANOVA of repeated measures was performed based on the equality of covariance matrices through the Box’s Test. Post-Hoc comparisons within the group and within time were performed through the Holm-Sidak test. The adopted significance level was 5% (p-value ≤ 0.05), and the data were analyzed using the SPSS software (version 24.0). The values are described by the mean and standard deviation (SD).

Following, Table 1 shows the descriptive data for HAG and ATG participants to characterize the sample.

Table 1

Sample profile.
Participant	Group	Age	Sex	School level	MoCA Score	Years of deprivation	Hours of use
1	HAG	68	M	complete elementary school	27	5	12
2	HAG	72	F	complete elementary school	29	4	8
3	HAG	69	M	incomplete elementary school	26	5	9
4	HAG	65	M	complete high school	29	3	7
5	ATG	68	F	incomplete elementary school	26	3	7
6	ATG	70	F	incomplete elementary school	26	1	9
7	ATG	71	M	complete high school	28	2	8
8	ATG	80	F	incomplete elementary school	25	2	8
Caption: HAG = Hearing Aid Group; ATG = Auditory Training Group; M = male; F = female;

Based on these data, the statistical analysis was performed to verify group homogeneity, as shown in Table 2.

Table 2

Group comparative analysis.
Variable	Category	HAG (n = 4)	ATG (n = 4)
		F	%	F	%	p-value
Age	60 to 70 years	3	75	2	50	0.999
	over 71 years	1	25	2	50	0.999
Sex	Female	1	25	3	75	0.486
	Male	3	75	1	25	0.486
School level	Complete elementary	3	75	1	25	0.486
	Incomplete elementary	1	25	3	75	0.486
Moca	Between 24–27 points	2	50	3	75	0.999
	Over 28 points	2	50	1	25	0.999
Deprivation Time	Up to 3 years	1	25	4	100	0.143
	between 4–5 years	3	75	0	0	0.143
Mean hours of HÁ use	Up to 8 hours daily	2	50	3	75	0.999
	Over 12 hours daily	2	50	1	25	0.999
Caption: HAG = Hearing Aid Group; ATG = Auditory Training Group

Note: * p <0.05 significant association by Fisher's exact test.

Table 3 shows the comparison between the groups for the CAEP responses from the mean latencies of the P1-N1-P2-N2-P3a complex for the two moments of assessment, and the ANOVA results.

Table 3

Mean and standard deviation of the Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential latency values (ms) at the two assessed moments.
	Hearing Aid Group (n = 4)		Auditory Training Group (n = 4)		p-value
	Mean (ms)	SD	Mean (ms)	SD	Group	Time	Interaction
P1 Initial As	61.42	12.58	68.71	14.60	0.709	0.679	0.645
P1 Final As	61.73	24.70	62.98	16.71	0.709	0.679	0.645
N1 Initial As	85.89	14.44	105.41	15.38	0.697	0.653	0.062
N1 Final As	104.88	18.16	92.91	16.98	0.697	0.653	0.062
P2 Initial As	135.07	2.74	158.24	36.88	0.692	0.102	0.064
P2 Final As	137.67	17.45	125.18	11.82	0.692	0.102	0.064
N2 Initial As	170.21	13.40	215.19	54.74	0.346	0.097	0.074
N2 Final As	172.81	11.05	160.58	12.36	0.346	0.097	0.074
P3a Initial As	248.02	14.95	265.98	35.43	0.280	0.017†	0.848
P3a Final As	224.08	19.39	238.91*	12.68	0.280	0.017†	0.848
Caption: n = number of individuals; SD = standard deviation; As = assessment.

Note: multivariate analyzes were based on the assumption of equality of covariance matrices through the Box’s test. * Significant difference in relation to the initial assessment within the group through the Holm-Sidak Post-hoc test for p-value ≤ 0.05. † main effect of time within the group through mixed ANOVA of repeated measures for p-value ≤ 0.05.

There was a statistically significant difference for the P3a component in the ATG when initial and final assessment were compared, indicating a time effect within the group, with a latency decrease in this component after hearing rehabilitation.

Table 4 shows the means of the amplitudes of the P1-N1-P2-N2-P3a complex for the two moments of assessment, and ANOVA results.

Table 4

Mean and standard deviation of the Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential amplitude values (µV) at the two assessed moments.
	Hearing Aid Group (n = 4)		Auditory Training Group (n = 4)		p-value
	Mean (µV)	SD	Mean (µV)	SD	Group	Time	Interaction
P1 Initial As	1.05	1.13	2.06	1.16	0.087	0.122	0.126
P1 Final As	1.06	0.84	3.25	1.56	0.087	0.122	0.126
N1 Initial As	-1.85	0.98	-3.06	2.58	0.090	0.401	0.938
N1 Final As	-0.72	0.76	-2.11	2.39	0.090	0.401	0.938
P2 Initial As	0.79	0.86	3.60	2.59	0.143	0.397	0.058
P2 Final As	1.69	0.43	1.55	0.77	0.143	0.397	0.058
N2 Initial As	-1.48	1.28	-3.12	2.74	0.151	0.453	0.814
N2 Final As	-1.93	1.96	-3.96	1.51	0.151	0.453	0.814
P3a Initial As	2.49	1.25	3.15	1.44	0.291	0.295	0.354
P3a Final As	2.58	0.44	4.51	3.05	0.291	0.295	0.354
Caption: n = number of individuals; SD = standard deviation; As = assessment.

Note: multivariate analyzes were based on the assumption of equality of covariance matrices by the Box’s test.

There was no statistically significant difference in relation to the amplitudes of the P1-N1-P2-N2-P3a complex considering the analysis of the group and time effect, and the interaction between group and time.

Figure 1 shows the grand average of CAEP of both groups HAG and ATG pre- and post-Auditory Musical Training associated with hearing aid adaptation.

Auditory rehabilitation process involves several factors that can interfere with the successful hearing aid adaptation and the benefits obtained with hearing training programs. Among them, the time of hearing deprivation, adherence to the use of hearing aids, among other factors that influence each case toward a different prognosis and require careful evaluation by the involved professionals [19].

Considering these factors, it is important to initially reckon the characteristics of the study sample. The groups were homogeneous in relation to age, education level, score obtained on the MoCA instrument, time of hearing deprivation and average hours of using hearing aids daily. There are no significant differences between them. In general, most of the elderly participants in the study were between 60 and 70 years old, had good cognitive level, time of hearing deprivation of up to 5 years, and systematic hearing aid use.

Assuming that AEPs provides rich information for reasoning and understanding the neuroelectrophysiological processes that are part of auditory and linguistic information processing, this investigation chose to assess the CAEP. This measure investigates the detection, attention, discrimination and recognition of sound automatically, without the need for active patient participation, which minimizes the negative interference of factors related to age, such as memory and cognitive processes [20].

Some studies report LLAEP increased latency in the elderly [21, 22] when compared to young people and adults. However, in the present study, latency values within the reference intervals were observed. Even though comparison with young patients was not performed, the elderly in both groups had good cognitive levels and time of hearing deprivation of up to five years. Another study showed that 2–5 year-time of hearing deprivation in individuals with mild or moderate sensorineural hearing loss did not influence the results of the long-latency auditory evoked potential [23]. Another study assessed N1 and P2 latencies in elderly people with hearing loss from 4KHz frequency and complaints of speech comprehension, and observed no increased latencies for these components [24].

The comparison between the measures obtained in the initial and final assessments between the HAG and ATG identified a positive effect of auditory training for the elderly in the ATG, with a significant decrease in the latency of the P3a component after hearing rehabilitation compared to the values of the initial assessment. For the other components of the wave complex, a decrease in latency was observed in the final assessment in ATG, but no statistically significant differences.

When latency decreases are observed after interventions, we can understand that the time of processing the acoustic information by CANS was reduced [25, 26]. Specifically for the P3a component, the reduction in latency shows improvement in attention, acoustic recognition and auditory-linguistic association (secondary auditory cortex and associative areas) after the musical auditory training sessions.

The P3a component reflects the automatic process of attention and perception of the distinctive acoustic characteristics of the rare stimulus during the CAEP examination. Studies show that P3a and P3b have different neural generators, and that P3a originates from frontal attention mechanisms [27]. A study carried out using the Low-Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography technique showed that P3a generators are located in the cingulate areas, frontal and parietal regions [28].

Studies involving auditory evoked potentials describe decreased latencies as a neurophysiological correlate of neural plasticity [29, 30]. Changes in P3 latency were observed in other studies involving elderly people who only used hearing aids [11, 31, 32], unlike our study, which did not observe significant changes for HAG.

Other studies assessing the effects of AT with electrophysiological measures showed an improvement in the neural representation of speech in noise after training [12, 33]. These studies did not associate the use of hearing aids with auditory training.

Some studies report P3 amplitude increase after auditory training [32, 34]. In this study, an increase in P3a amplitude was observed after AT, with no statistically significant difference.

The amplitude represents the magnitude of electrical activity involved in performing a task. When an increase in amplitude after interventions is observed, it is understood that there was activation of synaptic activity and an improvement in processing quality. And related to the P3a component, it reflects this activation for the process of redirecting attention to the automatic detection of the relevant acoustic stimulus [35].

The present study analyzed the CAEP measurements in sound field, in order to assess the neural responses to binaural hearing, considering its importance for the ability to recognize speech in noise in elderly people and your auditory and communicative decline related to age.

The sample size can be considered a limiting factor to this study, whose initial proposal was to have more participants in the groups. However, such results aroused the researchers' interest in continuing the study to promote longitudinal assessments and to investigate long-term effects.

There was a change in the CAEP in elderly people with presbycusis in response to Musical Auditory Training associated with the use of hearing aids in elderly people with presbycusis. Thus, auditory rehabilitation proved to be effective in generating neural changes for attention, acoustic recognition and auditory-linguistic association.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Brazil (CAPES).

Katya Guglielmi Marcondes Freire for granting access to the program Treinamento Musical Auditivo®.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

YBA carried out the conception and design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data; ATLC assisted in the design and development of the study and corrections to the article; EFBC analysed the results; WWFC assisted in the development, writing and review of the article; KRL assisted in the development of the article as well as data analysis; ACFF advisor of the project that conceived the proposal, assisted in the design and development of the study and corrections for the article. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

DECLARATION OF INTEREST STATEMENT

There are no conflicts of interest.

FUNDING DETAILS

This study was financed in part by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Brazil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

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Changes in cortical auditory evoked potentials in response to auditory training in elderly hearing aid users

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Auditory Training

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