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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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.
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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?
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.
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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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Sensorion Presents Preclinical Data at ARO MidWinter Meeting 2020
Sensorion (Paris:ALSEN) (FR0012596468 – ALSEN), a clinical-stage biotech company which specializes...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Northern Arizona University Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Tinnitus
Funded through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $455,982, the project’s long-term goal is to construct a profile that can be used by healthcare providers and educators to identify individuals genetically at risk for chronic tinnitus and help them prevent the condition.
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Researchers Identify 38 New Mouse Genes Related to Hearing Loss
To identify new molecules involved in hearing loss, the researchers took a genetic approach and created 1,211 new mouse mutants. They screened each of these mice using a sensitive electrophysiological test, the auditory brainstem response, to find out how good their hearing was.
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Baylor College and Texas Children’s Hospital to Host Monthly Speaker Series on Hearing Loss
The Evenings with Genetics series offers current information regarding care, education, and research as they relate to genetic disorders and encourages networking within the community by connecting patients and their families with others in similar situations.
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UVA Researchers Find Potential Contributor to Age-related Hearing Loss
The auditory receptors of the inner ear, called hair cells, pick up sounds using a vibration-sensing antenna called the hair bundle. While much research into hearing loss has focused on the hair bundle, UVA’s discovery spotlights the foundations those antennas stand on.
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Audion Therapeutics and Regain Consortium Report Positive Phase I Results from Drug to Treat SNHL
LY3056480 mediated Notch inhibition is aimed at regeneration of inner ear sensory hair cells that are lost with advancing age.
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Study Finds Magnitude of Age-related Hearing Loss Associated with Increased Depression Risk
A new study found that elderly individuals with age-related hearing loss had more symptoms of depression; the greater the hearing loss, the greater the risk of having depressive symptoms.
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Researchers Find Link Between Premature Death, Hearing Loss
Researchers at the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that mortality among those with hearing loss is elevated, particularly among men and women younger than age 75 and those who are divorced or separated.
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