New Evidence-Based Recommendations for Age-Related Hearing Loss
A new guideline offers evidence-based recommendations to improve the identification, screening, and management of age-related hearing loss.
Tag: age-related hearing loss
All
Latest
All
Latest
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.
All
Latest
Diabetic Patients Who Smoke May Increase Hearing Loss Risk
Examining data from 33,552 people included in a national health survey from 2010-2013, South Korean researchers found that the risk of age-related hearing loss nearly doubles in diabetic patients who smoke cigarettes.
How Do Family Physicians Manage Age-related Hearing Loss?
For people with hearing loss, the family physician (aka, general practitioner or primary care doctor) can be key to early detection and guiding appropriate and timely treatment choices. But how can hearing care professionals work with family physicians to get hearing loss front and center on their agenda?
Read More
MDHearingAid to Partner with H.O.M.E. to Donate 250 Free Hearing Aids to Seniors
H.O.M.E. is a Chicago organization that “fosters joy, independence, and connection for older adults with low incomes.”
Read More
Electric-acoustic Stimulation Can Help Patients with High-frequency Hearing Loss
Precision surgical implantation of electrodes for the electric-acoustic stimulation of the inner ear can stabilize the long-term residual hearing of severely hearing-impaired people and significantly improve their speech recognition.
Read More
Bone Density Loss Drugs May Help Treat Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The scientists administered bisphosphonates to mice 24 hours after noise exposure. They found that the medication had a dramatic effect at regenerating the synapses between inner hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons found in the ear, and restoring cochlear function.
Read More
Research Shows Hair Cell Damage May Be Main Cause of Age-related Hearing Loss
Researchers examined 120 inner ears collected at autopsy. They used multivariable statistical regression to compare data on the survival of hair cells, nerve fibers, and the stria vascularis with the patients’ audiograms to uncover the main predictor of the hearing loss in this aging population. They found that the degree and location of hair cell death predicted the severity and pattern of the hearing loss, while stria vascularis damage did not.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
Researchers Explore Relationship Between Hearing Loss and Falls
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
Sensorion Presents Preclinical Data at ARO MidWinter Meeting 2020
Sensorion (Paris:ALSEN) (FR0012596468 – ALSEN), a clinical-stage biotech company which specializes...
Read More
Author Points to Long-term Noise Exposure as Source of Hearing Loss
In a new book called “Volume Control,” author David Owen argues that a lifetime of exposure to noise—including small appliances, rock concerts, and earbuds, among other things—in today’s modern world have led to greater rates of hearing loss in old age, according to an article on the “NPR” website.
Read More
Study Identifies 44 Genes Linked to Age-related Hearing Loss
By the age of 65, one-third of people are affected by some degree of hearing loss which can lead to social isolation and disability and has been identified as a risk factor for dementia.
Read More
Hearing Loss May Be Linked to Mental, Physical, and Social Ailments
A team of Japanese researchers centered at the University of Tsukuba sought to shed further light on the relation of hearing loss and other illnesses among older people.
Read More
Hearing Aids May Protect the Brain in Later Life
A new study from the University of Exeter and King’s College in London has concluded that people who wear a hearing aid for age-related hearing problems maintain better brain function over time than those who do not.
Read More
Purdue Researchers Find Noise-induced Trauma May Have Greater Impact on Hearing Loss
The researchers found that noise trauma causes substantially greater changes in neural processing of complex sounds compared with age-related metabolic loss, potentially explaining large differences in speech perception commonly seen between people with the same clinically defined degree of hearing loss based on an audiogram.
Read More