A team of Mass Eye and Ear researchers in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories have been awarded a five-year, $12.5 million P50 Clinical Research Center Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicable Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue their research on cochlear synaptopathy, or hidden hearing loss, a type of hearing damage first discovered at Mass Eye and Ear in 2009.
In a recent survey of 2,000 UK adults, commissioned by the British Irish Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (BIHIMA) and announced on its website, 16% of respondents self-reported suffering from hearing loss, with men being nearly twice as likely to suffer as women: 1 in 5 men reported suffering from hearing loss compared to 1 in 10 women.
MusiciansClinics.com is a resource for those seeking information on a variety of topics related to hearing and hearing loss in musicians. Developed by audiologist-musician Marshall Chasin, AuD, the website offers a large range of resources for guitarists, bass players, violinists, woodwind players, school band teachers, and more.
In the hippocampus, synaptic plasticity was chronically impaired by progressive hearing loss. The distribution and density of neurotransmitter receptors in sensory and memory regions of the brain also changed constantly. The stronger the hearing impairment, the poorer were both synaptic plasticity and memory ability.
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New research shows that after wearing professionally fit quality hearing aids, a patient’s brain may “re-organize” its auditory processing centers back towards its original state prior to the hearing loss—with corresponding gains in auditory speech perception abilities and improvements in global cognitive function, executive function, processing speed, and visual working memory performance. Anu Sharma discusses the research findings with Douglas Beck.
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Adapting the “first fit” experience to be more reflective of a patient’s gradual hearing loss experience and providing for a gradual transition allows the auditory system to receive, process, and accept sounds that have been missing.
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As hearing aid processing becomes more complex, the area of psychoacoustics becomes increasingly important for understanding exactly what these devices are doing (or trying to do) for your patients’ compromised auditory systems.
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Dr Flexer is an expert in the development and expansion of listening, speaking, and literacy skills in infants and children, including those with all degrees of hearing loss.
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CROS and BiCROS hearing aids are not the only treatment options for those with unilateral hearing loss. This article reviews other options and potential future avenues for unilateral sensorineural hearing loss and single-sided deafness, as well as for unilateral conductive hearing loss.
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Senate Bill 976 aims to clear up any miscommunication that may occur during a traffic stop, as the health information will be available to an officer who runs the license plate through their system.
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Audiologist Marshall Chasin posits a simple test that can be employed with a piano or keyboard that might quickly screen people for the possibility of a cochlear dead zone.
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A discussion of the speech-in-noise problem, why directional microphones often fall short in real-life listening situations, and how one of the more interesting areas of hearing aid research involves the idea of deep neural networks (DNN).
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It now appears the “OTC regulatory debate” could potentially follow the same general timeframe as the 2020 presidential race—starting with proposed rules by the FDA in November of this year.
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The researchers found that 0.8% of those with osteoporosis and 0.5% of adults in the control group without the condition experienced sudden sensorineural hearing loss. This means that people with osteoporosis have a 40% increased risk of developing a sudden sensorineural hearing.
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Rinri’s underlying technology, based on innovative stem cell research, seeks to reverse neuropathic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) through the repair of the damaged cytoarchitecture in the inner ear.
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Human beings are social creatures. This special report, featuring comments from leading experts in psychology and audiology, reviews new and important research on hearing loss, and shows why audiological care needs to renew its focus on helping patients regain their communication and social engagement activities—those things that make life meaningful and rewarding.
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LY3056480 mediated Notch inhibition is aimed at regeneration of inner ear sensory hair cells that are lost with advancing age.
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Patients presenting with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) may be thought of as one of the few true “emergencies of the ear” presented to hearing care professionals. Here is a case study that highlights the importance of the MRI when evaluating SSNHL.
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