The COM-B model provides a framework for understanding factors that influence consumer behavior when purchasing hearing aids. While OTC hearing aids have been created to address affordability and accessibility, researchers Brent Edwards and Melanie Ferguson point out that the model clearly suggests consumers will continue to reject hearing aids until the other influencing factors are addressed.
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To hear, animals rely on hair cells in the inner ear, which bend under the pressure of sound waves and send electrical impulses to the brain. The recessive mutation to TMC1 that Liu and Yeh hoped to correct caused rapid deterioration of those hair cells, leading to profound deafness at just 4 weeks of age.
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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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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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It was long suspected that tiny molecular motors maintain the proper tension in the so-called hair cell mechanoreceptors that are located in the inner ear. This tension is a key factor in how we detect sound, similarly to how a taut fishing line indicates nibbling fish.
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A geneticist and otolaryngologist–head and neck surgeon, Griffith has spent two decades as a principal investigator at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), during which he led the NIDCD intramural program as the scientific director for 11 years.
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Researchers at the Oregon Hearing Research Center at OHSU, working with mice, injected a specially designed synthetic molecule into the developing inner ear of fetal mice 12 days after fertilization.
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The authors found that the type of sound was important when it comes to balance. More specifically, continuous background noise (usually static) was the most helpful for subjects to keep their center of gravity.
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Too many hearing care professionals have a resistant or ambivalent outlook about the use of motivational engagement tools which seek to change patients’ attitudes about their hearing loss. As the fiddler Tevye can tell you, change can be good—and even necessary—for all parties involved.
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By Phil Roth, Communications Manager, UT Dallas In an effort to unify research into noise-induced...
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Nonprofit Action on Hearing Loss and Medicines Discovery Catapult announced the launch of the...
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The American Tinnitus Association (ATA) and British Tinnitus Association (BTA) have announced...
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Sensorion reported disappointing results in a Phase 2 trial of SENS-111 for the treatment of acute unilateral vestibulopathy (AUV). It now plans to focus its efforts on its SENS-401 drug designed to treat sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL).
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The team found that the odds of a decline in mid-frequency hearing sensitivities were almost 30% lower among those whose diets most closely resembled these healthful dietary patterns, compared with women whose diets least resembled the healthful dietary patterns.
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The Genedrive MT-RNR1 ID kit will be used in critical care settings to screen babies for a genetic mutation, which if present, can cause lifelong deafness when they are given certain antibiotics.
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