How Much Speech People Think They Understand Drives Reactions to Noise
Understanding how and why people react to background noise could help in finding effective intervention strategies.
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Mass Eye and Ear Researchers Awarded $12.5 Million Grant
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.
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BIHIMA Survey Finds 1 in 6 UK Adults Have Hearing Loss
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.
The Musicians’ Clinics of Canada Launches New Website
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.
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USC Stem Cell Study Traces Evolution of Organ of Corti
By the time mice are born, the progenitor cells in the Organ of Corti have finished both proliferation and differentiation, and cannot regenerate if they are damaged—causing permanent hearing loss.
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Age-related Hearing Loss Genes Discovered in Fruit Flies
“Our twin discoveries that fruit flies experience age-related hearing loss and that their prior auditory health is controlled by a particular set of genes, is a significant breakthrough. The fact that these genes are conserved in humans will also help to focus future clinical research in humans and thereby accelerate the discovery of novel pharmacological or gene-therapeutic strategies,” says lead-author Joerg Albert.
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Age-related Hearing Loss May Reorganize Brain’s Sensory Areas
Researchers looked at mice engineered to have progressive hearing loss, and found that their neurotransmitter receptors—responsible for communication between brain cells—exhibited changes in sensory processing regions related to memory.
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Researchers Chart Development of Cells from Mouse Cochlea
In the future, scientists may be able to use the data to steer stem cells toward the hair cell lineage, helping to produce the specialized cells they need to test cell replacement approaches for reversing some forms of hearing loss.
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Sonova Announces New Brand Ambassador, Volleyball Player Natália Martins
The 35-year-old has had profound hearing loss since childhood and wears hearing aids from Sonova brand, Phonak. In Brazil, she is the “first volleyball player with hearing loss to play at professional level and to make it into her country’s national team.”
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Frequency Therapeutics Announces Clinical Data from Auditory Drug
FX-322 is Frequency’s lead product candidate, designed to regenerate auditory sensory hair cells in the cochlea and improve hearing in patients with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
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Researchers Examine Link Between Cognitive Decline, Hearing Loss
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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How Might the Brain Change When We Reintroduce Sound? Interview with Anu Sharma, PhD
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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Moving Past the First Fit Approach and Modernizing the Hearing Healthcare Space
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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Psychoacoustics: Auditory Perception in Normal and Impaired Hearing: Interview with Jennifer Lentz, PhD
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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Children and the Development of Listening and Talking Skills: An Interview with Carol Flexer, PhD
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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Managing People with Sensorineural and Conductive Unilateral Hearing Loss and Single-Sided Deafness
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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New Texas Law Allows Individuals to Indicate Hearing Difficulties on Vehicle Registration
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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Testing for Cochlear Dead Regions Using a Piano
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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