Editorial: Hearing Loss and Cognitive Disorders.

In summary, the 17 studies published in this Research Topic provide evidence on the connection between hearing loss and cognitive disorders. A case-control study first reported that hearing impairment in older adults was strongly associated with the likelihood of having dementia - raising the hypothesis that hearing impairment may contribute to dementia risk (Uhlmann et al., [12]). Their study examined the reliability of the visual-auditory interaction in pre-lingually deaf children with CIs and demonstrated that the CI-induced activation of mirror neurons could explain deficiencies in the classical cross-modal interaction. Keywords: hearing loss; cognitive disorders; behavior detection; cochlear implant; neuroimaging EN hearing loss cognitive disorders behavior detection cochlear implant neuroimaging 1 3 3 05/19/22 20220516 NES 220516 Overall, 466 million people worldwide are estimated to be living with hearing loss. [Extracted from the article]