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Hearing Loss News
July 27, 2023

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Scientists Discover Natural Repair Process That Fixes Damaged Hearing Cells

The findings could benefit efforts to develop new ways to treat and prevent hearing loss, including age-related hearing ...

How the Ear Can Inform the Brain of Whether Hearing Is Impaired

A cochlear signal, the exact role of which has been unclear since its discovery around 70 years ago, probably gives the brain information on whether the ear is functioning normally or not. These new findings are an important piece of the puzzle in explaining what happens in the ear in hearing ...

An Unexpected Doorway Into the Ear Opens New Possibilities for Hearing Restoration

Researchers have developed a new method to deliver drugs into the inner ear. The discovery was possible by harnessing the natural flow of fluids in the brain and employing a little understood backdoor into the cochlea. When combined to deliver a ...

Deaf Mice Have Nearly Normal Inner Ear Function Until Ear Canal Opens

For the first two weeks of life, mice with a hereditary form of deafness have nearly normal neural activity in the auditory system, according to a new study. Previous studies indicate that this early auditory activity -- before the onset of hearing -- provides a kind of training to prepare the ...
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Study Finds New Association Between Social Isolation and Dementia Risk Factors

Researchers used data on more than half a million people in the UK and Canada to discover a link between social capital and indicators of Alzheimer's disease-related ...

Altered Speech May Be the First Sign of Parkinson's Disease

Researchers attempted to identify early symptoms of Parkinson's disease using voice data. In their study, the researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and assess speech signals, ...

Genetic Diagnosis Helps Guide Care of Childhood Hearing Loss

Advances in understanding the many different genetic causes of childhood-onset hearing loss indicate that genomic testing could assist in individualizing treatment planning, including the optimal ...

How Supervisors Can Create a Better Work Environment for Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Employees

A new study sheds light on how the severity of an employee's hearing loss can impact their experience at work -- and the steps managers and employers can take to create a more inclusive ...

New Study Links Hearing Loss With Dementia in Older Adults

A new study has found that older adults with greater severity of hearing loss were more likely to have dementia, but the likelihood of dementia was lower among hearing aid users compared to ...

A Checkerboard Pattern of Inner Ear Cells Enables Us to Hear

A research group has revealed that the checkerboard-like arrangement of cells in the inner ear's organ of Corti is vital for hearing. The discovery gives a new insight into how hearing works ...

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When Grandpa Can't Hear Words at a Noisy Holiday Gathering, Too Many Brain Cells May Be Firing at Once

Looking for answers about how the brain works amid age-related hearing loss, researchers say they found that old mice were less capable than young mice of 'turning off' certain actively ...

Brain Flexibility May Hasten Hearing Improvements from Cochlear Implants

Kickstarting the brain's natural ability to adjust to new circumstances, or neuroplasticity, improves how effectively a cochlear implant can restore hearing loss, a new study in deaf rats shows. ...

Two Master Genes Critical for Hearing

Scientists have uncovered the underlying cause of deafness caused by swelling of the chambers in the inner ear. Using a mouse model of a human congenital disorder that displays deafness, the ...

Long-Term Hearing Loss Treatment

The researchers looked closer into the possibility of reprograming inner ear cells to repair long-term hearing ...

Lab Grown 'Mini Eyes' Unlock Understanding of Blindness in Rare Genetic Condition

Researchers have grown 'mini eyes', which make it possible to study and better understand the development of blindness in a rare genetic disease called Usher syndrome for the first ...

Wireless Earphones as Inexpensive Hearing Aids

Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification ...

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How Low-Cost Earbuds Can Make Newborn Hearing Screening Accessible

Researchers have created a newborn hearing screening system that uses cheap earbuds and a smartphone instead of an expensive commercial ...

Mechanism of Hearing: Structure of Key Part of Inner Ear

Scientists have revealed in near-atomic detail the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing. The findings could point the way toward developing new treatments for hearing ...

Masks Saw More Than 90 Percent of Deaf People Struggle to Communicate During Pandemic, Study Finds

Mandatory mask wearing saw more than 90 percent of deaf people struggle to communicate during the pandemic, research has revealed. It also discovered that 76 percent missed vital information and 59 ...

Researchers Identify Potential Therapeutic Targets to Prevent Hearing Loss Caused by Antibiotics

Researchers are developing new ways to study why an antibiotic causes hair cell death and permanent hearing loss in ...

New Research Throws Doubt on Old Ideas of How Hearing Works

The way in which we experience music and speech differs from what has until now been believed. The results may make it possible to design better cochlear ...

COVID-19 Infections Increase Risk of Long-Term Brain Problems

A comprehensive analysis of federal data shows people who have had COVID-19 are at an elevated risk of developing neurological conditions within the first year after infection. Movement disorders, ...

Telehealth Makes Hearing Health Care More Equitable

Scientists explore how digital health solutions can expand audiology services in clinical and research settings. Audiology assessment via telehealth would allow patients to access care while a ...

A Cut Above -- Two Devices Are Teamed to Simplify, Quicken and Improve Ear Reconstruction

Thanks to two novel tools, the traditionally difficult surgery to create a replacement ear from a patient's rib cartilage may soon be done faster, more simply and ...

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