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Overview

Paul Avan is affiliated with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. Their research primarily falls within the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Sensory Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Speech and Hearing, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics Paul Avan investigates include Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, and Genetics; Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation; Vestibular and Auditory Disorders; Noise Effects and Management; Multisensory Perception and Integration; Neuroscience and Music Perception; and Hearing Impairment and Communication.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Paul Avan are Fabrice Giraudet, Christine Petit, M. Puechmaille, T. Mom, and Amrit Singh-Estivalet.

Paul Avan has published in various academic venues, including Hearing Research, Bulletin de l Académie Nationale de Médecine, EMC - Otorrinolaringología, Ear and Hearing, and Journal of Vestibular Research.

Recent research papers authored or coauthored by Paul Avan include the following:

  • Ultrarare heterozygous pathogenic variants of genes causing dominant forms of early-onset deafness underlie severe presbycusis (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • NOS1 mutations cause hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with sensory and cognitive deficits that can be reversed in infantile mice (2022, Science Translational Medicine)
  • The SNARE protein SNAP-25 is required for normal exocytosis at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses (2022, iScience)
  • Decreased Reemerging Auditory Brainstem Responses Under Ipsilateral Broadband Masking as a Marker of Noise-Induced Cochlear Synaptopathy (2021, Ear and Hearing)
  • Avaliação de Crianças com Indicadores de Risco para Deficiência Auditiva Atendidas em um Serviço de Referência em Triagem Auditiva Neonatal (2020, Distúrbios da Comunicação)

Best Publications

  • Mutations in the gene encoding pejvakin, a newly identified protein of the afferent auditory pathway, cause DFNB59 auditory neuropathy

    Sedigheh Delmaghani;Francisco J del Castillo;Vincent Michel;Michel Leibovici

  • The remarkable cochlear amplifier.

    J. Ashmore;P. Avan;W. E. Brownell;Peter Dallos

  • Hypervulnerability to Sound Exposure through Impaired Adaptive Proliferation of Peroxisomes

    Sedigheh Delmaghani;Sedigheh Delmaghani;Sedigheh Delmaghani;Jean Defourny;Jean Defourny;Jean Defourny;Asadollah Aghaie;Asadollah Aghaie;Asadollah Aghaie;Maryline Beurg

  • Importance of Binaural Hearing

    Paul Avan;Fabrice Giraudet;Béla Büki

  • Stereocilin-deficient mice reveal the origin of cochlear waveform distortions

    Elisabeth Verpy;Dominique Weil;Michel Leibovici;Richard J. Goodyear

  • Non-invasive method and apparatus for monitoring intracranial pressure

    Scott C. Meyerson;Paul Alexandre Avan;Bela Buki

  • Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses

    Nicolas Antoine Michalski;Nicolas Antoine Michalski;Nicolas Antoine Michalski;Juan D Goutman;Sarah Marie Auclair;Jacques Boutet de Monvel;Jacques Boutet de Monvel;Jacques Boutet de Monvel

  • Local gene therapy durably restores vestibular function in a mouse model of Usher syndrome type 1G.

    Alice Emptoz;Vincent Michel;Andrea Lelli;Omar Akil

  • Auditory distortions: origins and functions.

    Paul Avan;Béla Büki;Christine Petit

  • Middle ear influence on otoacoustic emissions. I: Noninvasive investigation of the human transmission apparatus and comparison with model results

    Paul Avan;Béla Büki;Bert Maat;Monique Dordain

  • Otoacoustic emissions: a new tool for monitoring intracranial pressure changes through stapes displacements

    B. Büki;P. Avan;J.J. Lemaire;M. Dordain

  • Distorted Odorant Perception: Analysis of a Series of 56 Patients With Parosmia

    Pierre Bonfils;Paul Avan;Patrick Faulcon;David Malinvaud

  • Frequency specificity of human distortion product otoacoustic emissions.

    Paul Avan;Pierre Bonfils

  • Spontaneous and evoked otoacoustic emissions in preterm neonates

    Pierre Bonfils;Martine Francois;Paul Avan;Alain Londero

  • Wavelet analysis of real ear and synthesized click evoked otoacoustic emissions.

    Hp Wit;P Vandijk;P Avan

  • Functional anatomy of auditory brainstem nuclei: application to the anatomical basis of brainstem auditory evoked potentials.

    Bernard Biacabe;Jean Marc Chevallier;Paul Avan;Pierre Bonfils

  • Pejvakin-mediated pexophagy protects auditory hair cells against noise-induced damage.

    Jean Defourny;Alain Aghaie;Isabelle Perfettini;Isabelle Perfettini;Isabelle Perfettini;Paul Avan

  • Quantitative assessment of human cochlear function by evoked otoacoustic emissions.

    P. Avan;P. Bonfils;D. Loth;Ph. Narcy

  • Characteristics of Transient-evoked Otoacoustic Emissions (TEOEs) in Neonates

    Aidan D;Lestang P;Avan P;Bonfils P

  • Genetic dissection of the function of hindbrain axonal commissures.

    Nicolas Renier;Nicolas Renier;Nicolas Renier;Martijn Schonewille;Fabrice Giraudet;Aleksandra Badura

  • Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions. Values for clinical use.

    Pierre Bonfils;Paul Avan

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Petit
Christine Petit Université Paris Cité
Jean-Paul Nguyen
Jean-Paul Nguyen University of Nantes
Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur
Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur Paris-Est Créteil University
Guy P. Richardson
Guy P. Richardson University of Sussex
Jean-Luc Puel
Jean-Luc Puel University of Montpellier
Richard J. Goodyear
Richard J. Goodyear University of Sussex
Alain Chédotal
Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision
Dominique Weil
Dominique Weil Institut Pasteur

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