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Hearing Impairment News
July 24, 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 ...

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 ...

A Chance Observation Finds Potential Hearing Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease

Researchers found where plaques are found in the brain may impact hearing in Alzheimer's ...
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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Capturing and Analyzing Subtle Combination Tones Produced by Violins

When two musical notes are played simultaneously, the human ear can perceive weak additional tones called combination tones. While less perceivable, objective combination tones are also generated by ...

Feeling Chirpy: Being Around Birds Is Linked to Lasting Mental Health Benefits

New research has found that seeing or hearing birds is associated with an improvement in mental wellbeing that can last up to eight ...

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 ...

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First-Grade Girls Stick With Science After Pretending to Be Marie Curie

Fake it until you make is true for children, too, it turns out: Young girls playing the role of a successful female scientist, like Marie Curie, persist longer at a challenging science game. The new ...

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, ...

Significant Risk of Sensory Loss in Long COVID, Study Finds

New research has revealed the extent of sensory loss among people suffering from long COVID, with around 30 percent reporting a decreased sense of smell, and a similar number finding their sense of ...

Breakthrough in Search for Tinnitus Cure

Scientists are excited by results from a trial of a new treatment for ...

Researchers Identify a New Mechanism Responsible for Controlling Auditory Sensitivity

CU Anschutz researchers have identified a new mechanism of how auditory sensitivity is regulated, making more sense of how our hearing is so precise -- and providing insight into how we can better ...

Whether You're 18 or 80, Lifestyle May Be More Important Than Age in Determining Dementia Risk, Study Reveals

Individuals with no dementia risk factors, such as smoking, diabetes or hearing loss, have similar brain health as people who are 10 to 20 years younger than them, according to a new study. The study ...

Link Between Recognizing Our Voice and Feeling in Control

Being able to recognize our own voice is a critical factor for our sense of control over our speech, according to a new study. If people think they hear someone else's voice when they speak, ...

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