Hearing Loss is Associated with Subtle Brain Changes
Researchers employed hearing tests and MRI to determine whether hearing impairment is associated with differences in specific brain regions.
Researchers employed hearing tests and MRI to determine whether hearing impairment is associated with differences in specific brain regions.
Starkey announced that Livio Edge AI has won a 2021 MUSE Design Award in the Product Design category. The MUSE Design Awards are an international competition for designers whose craftsmanship “shifts paradigms.”
The Frankfurt scientists argue that the rhythms they observed in the bat brain are similar to neural rhythms often recorded from the human scalp, and concluded that brain rhythms could be linked to sound production in mammals in general.
According to Starkey’s announcement, members of the executive team spoke at each launch event to over 1,000 customers, partners, and government officials with the help of the dedicated teams in Korea, Japan, and China.
Read MoreAccording to Starkey’s announcement, members of the executive team spoke at each launch event to over 1,000 customers, partners, and government officials with the help of the dedicated teams in Korea, Japan, and China.
Read MoreTwo types of hippocampal sleep waves, slow oscillations and sleep spindles, are synced in healthy individuals, but not in Alzheimer’s patients.
Read MoreTwo types of hippocampal sleep waves, slow oscillations and sleep spindles, are synced in healthy individuals, but not in Alzheimer’s patients.
Read MoreResearch has shown that people who are born blind or become blind early in life often have a more nuanced sense of hearing, especially when it comes to musical abilities and tracking moving objects in space (imagine crossing a busy road using sound alone). For decades scientists have wondered what changes in the brain might underlie these enhanced auditory abilities.
Read MoreAn alarming 21% of respondents experience tinnitus symptoms such as ringing, buzzing, or persistent noise in the ears. Among these respondents, less than half have seen a doctor or hearing care professional about their symptoms, 25% do not think that they need to, and worryingly, almost 40% are not concerned about their overall hearing health, despite nearly half reporting that they do not have good hearing.
Read MoreThose who had imagined the sounds without experiencing the shocks decreased their fear responses to the real sounds just as well as those who really heard them without experiencing the shocks.
Read MoreAs yet there is no treatment to stop the tinnitus noise but this research, funded by the British Tinnitus Association (BTA), shows that treatment can make it less severe, intrusive, and bothersome.
Read MoreThe research provides new evidence for how the brain creates perceptual illusions when speech is degraded at cocktail parties, in song lyrics, or for older listeners.
Read MoreThe study reportedly found that, in contrast to existing theory, the more a person’s brain became responsive to lip reading the more it also became responsive to sounds delivered through their CI, and the better they were able to hear.
Read MoreWashington University School of Medicine researchers used a combination of medication and computer-assisted cognitive training to target the neural network changes and cognitive deficits common among tinnitus patients.
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