Cognition and Audition: Perspectives and Review 2023
The evidence indicates that untreated hearing loss exacerbates cognitive decline.
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2023: Perspectives & Review in Cognition/Audition
This special edition was guest-edited by Douglas Beck AuD, and provides an exploration into the history of cognition and the rapidly evolving research linking cognition and audition. Five industry experts will share insights into the HHCP’s changing role as a front-line caregiver uniquely situated to provide screening services to those suspected of suffering from cognitive decline.
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Neuroplasticity Can Improve Cochlear Implant Effect on Hearing
Kick-starting the brain’s natural ability to adjust to new circumstances, known as neuroplasticity, improves how effectively a cochlear implant can restore hearing loss, a new study in deaf rats shows. Researchers say the investigation may help explain why some implant recipients respond so much better to treatment than others.
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Research Shows Difficulty of Brain Focus on One Sound in Old Mice
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found that old mice were less capable than young mice of “turning off” certain actively firing brain cells in the midst of ambient noise.
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Genetic Test for Babies’ Hearing Wins News Statesman Award
A team who led the research for a world-first genetic test that could save the hearing of hundreds of babies each year, has won the New Statesman Positive Impact in Healthcare Award 2022.
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Quadrant Biosciences Awarded Patent for Saliva-based mTBI Test
This patent is a “transformative piece of intellectual property” that Quadrant Biosciences is using to develop its Clarifi™ mTBI Saliva Test, expected to be available in late 2023.
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Still Battling Turf Wars: 2022
Turf wars are sometimes disguised as SOP issues.
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Researchers Study Mechanism of Antibiotic Hair Cell Death
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are developing new ways to study why an antibiotic causes hair cell death and permanent hearing loss in people.
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U of Miami Researchers to Study Hearing Loss in Usher Syndrome
The NIH grant will fund Miller School research aimed at developing and testing novel therapy approaches with gene editing. Gene editing is a group of technologies that allow scientists to change an organism’s DNA. CRISPR-Cas9 is a popular gene editing technology developed to treat genetic disorders.
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Synapse Breakdown Accelerates Age-related Hearing Loss
Gabriel Corfas, PhD, who serves as the director of Michigan Medicine’s Kresge Hearing Research Institute, says that one of the first events in “cochlear aging” that leads to hearing loss is the breakdown of synapses between inner hair cells, or IHCs, and spiral ganglion neurons, or SGNs.
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FDA Approves Fennec Pedmark Ototoxicity Drug
Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: FENC; TSX: FRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Fennec Pedmark (sodium thiosulfate injection) to reduce the risk of ototoxicity associated with cisplatin in pediatric patients one month of age and older with localized, non-metastatic solid tumors. This approval reportedly makes Pedmark “the first and only treatment approved by the FDA in this area of significant unmet medical need.”
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A Deeper Dive into Cognition & Audiology: 2022
Approximately 55 million people (globally) have acquired dementia and that number is expected to triple in the next 28 years (by 2050). Despite disappointment regarding the pharmacologic treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (there are as-of-yet no drugs which cure or reverse Alzheimer’s Disease, when cognitive disorders are screened, diagnosed, and managed early, the opportunity to positively alter the trajectory of cognitive decline increases. In this article, we’ll examine some lesser-known factors and recent peer-reviewed findings which may impact our understanding of the relationship between cognition and audition.
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The Power of Empathy and Compassion
Patient Care | September 2022 Hearing Review Giving voice to the unspoken pain...
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Why the One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Tinnitus is Not Successful
Even though there is no cure for tinnitus today, good approaches that significantly reduce the burden of affected individuals are available. Therefore, it is hoped that the message to sufferers that they have to “live with their tinnitus” will become less and less pronounced.
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ACI Alliance Interviews Voice of Lead Character In ‘El Deafo’
The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) published the story of Lexi Finigan, a cochlear implant recipient who voiced the title character in the 2022 streaming series “El Deafo.”
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