Society for the study of olfactory, taste, hearing and balance disorders

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Society for the research of olfactory, taste, hearing and balance disorders (4-G research)
purpose	medical society for neurootology
Chair:	Claus-Frenz Claussen
Establishment date:	June 12, 1981
Seat :	Bad Kissingen

The building in which the 4-G research is located shares it with the Society for Neurootology and Equilibriometry .

The Society for Research into Odor, Taste, Hearing and Balance Disorders eV (4-G-Research eV) was founded by Claus-Frenz Claussen in the legal form of a registered association based in Bad Kissingen on June 12, 1981 .

tasks

The society deals - especially through its "Neurootological Research Institute" - with all four main areas of neurootology :

• Equilibrium research ( equilibriometry )
• Research into hearing ( audiometry )
• Research into the sense of smell ( olfactometry )
• Research into the sense of taste ( gustometry )

The areas of application from these areas have increased; H. the application of neurootological knowledge in

1. medical diagnostics
2. Knowledge of peer review
3. the electric medicine in therapy
4. the development of a car for 100-year-olds ("Auto-Cyberno-Mobil")
5. Occupational medical knowledge links
6. Research on age-related diseases: Presbytinnitus (age-related tinnitus), presbycusis (age-related hearing loss), presbyopia (age-related vision problems), Presbyataxie (age-related Taumeligkeit) Presbyosmie (age-related changes in odor) and Presbygeusie (age-related changes in taste).
7. Summary of knowledge in the field of neurootology in an international textbook.

As part of these activities, the 4-GF works regularly with institutions such as the North Sea Rehabilitation Clinic II in St. Peter-Ording and the Gottfried Gutmann Academy in Hamm.

Since it was founded, the 4-GF Institute has regularly supported the annual congresses of the Society for Neurootology and Equilibriometry (GNA). In 1998 the 4-GF successfully applied to hold the 20th annual meeting of the Bárány Society in Würzburg. In addition, the 4-GF regularly organizes advanced training courses on topics such as the use of various measurement methods ( Doppler sonography , gustometry, olfactometry, rhinomanometry , CCG) in the field of neurootology as well as the diagnosis and therapy of tinnitus. The 4-GF also regularly participates in the "International Tinnitus Platform" organized annually by the Martha Entenmann Tinnitus Research Center Inc. in Washington. Other congresses with contributions from the 4-GF included A. The 60th AOI Congress in India (2008), during which Claussen was honored by his students as their teacher "Guruji", and the 19th IFOS Congress in São Paulo (2009).

From 1995 to 2010, the 4-GF Institute, together with the Martha Entenmann Tinnitus Research Center at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, published a biannual specialist journal on topics from neurootology and tinnitology, the " International Tinnitus Journal ". Both institutions were half involved in the journal until it passed into the ownership of the Association of Otorhinolaryngology of the Federal District in 2010 . In addition, since 2007, the 4-GF Institute, with Claussen as the author, has contributed an article on tinnitus to the annually updated guide “ Conn's Current Therapy ”.

The 4-GF Institute is also working on a computer-aided, autonomous vehicle for the older generation, the Auto-Cyberno-Mobil. The concept was presented in the publication Das Auto-Cyberno-Mobil - An autonomous, medical-technical road vehicle for individual journeys in the third phase of life . Another current research project is devoted to magnetotherapy, the treatment of tinnitus using magnetic fields.

Hungarian space researchers from the “Vestibular and Psychological Space Research Groups of Dr. Nagy & Co. Ltd ” , the Semmelweis University and the military medical clinic (all Budapest) as well as researchers from countries such as Romania, Portugal, India and Great Britain on current research projects in neurootology and tinnitology. The results are published regularly in the International Tinnitus Journal , at the annual congresses of the GNA and electronically on the homepage of the “Archives for Sensology and Neurootology” (ASN). Scholarship holders are also regularly supervised as part of this research.

Publications

• Claus-Frenz Claussen (Hrsg.): Presbyvertigo Presbyataxie Presbytinnitus - Balance and sensory disorders in old age - Interdisciplinary Kissinger Symposium of the Society for the Study of Smell, Taste, Hearing and Balance Disorders e. V. (4-G -forschung eV) , Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Toyko 1985, ISBN 3-540-13790-4
• Tinnitus Center, The State University of New York, Health Center at Brooklyn, Society for the Study of Smell, Taste, Hearing and Balance Disorders e. V. Bad Kissingen (Ed.): International Tinnitus Journal , New, York, Bad Kissingen, since 1995, ISSN  0946-5448
• Claus-Frenz Claussen, Burkard Franz: Contemporary and Practical Neurootology , Neurootological Research Institute of 4-G Research e. V., Bad Kissingen 2006, ISBN 3-00-016398-0
• Claus-Frenz Claussen: The Auto-Cyberno-Mobil - An autonomous, medical-technical road vehicle for individual journeys in the third phase of life , Neurootological Research Institute of the Society for Research into Odor, Taste, Hearing and Balance Disorders e. V. (4-GF eV) Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020941-3
• Claus-Frenz Claussen, Julia Matilde Bergmann, Guillermo Oscar Bertora, in collaboration with José Carlos Seabra and Hermann Dertinger: Equilibriometría y Tinnitología práctica , Neurootological Research Institute of 4-G Research e. V., Bad Kissingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-027276-9
• Claus-Frenz-Claussen, Konstantin Trinus: Modern Neurootology , textbook in Russian, Neurootological Research Institute of 4-G Research e. V., in preparation

Web links

• Publications of 4-G-Research eV in the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - SPIEGEL: High-tech car for seniors - blood sugar test on the steering wheel
2. ↑ ZINQ-News 03-2008 (PDF; 3.6 MB) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Reporting in Bavarian Radio .
4. ↑ Abraham Shulman Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Summary of the Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the International Tinnitus Forum. , in: International Tinnitus Journal, Volume 15, No. 1, 2009, pp. 62-78.
5. ↑ Message from the city of Bad Kissingen ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.