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NIH: Mental Handwriting Produces Brain Activity that Can Be Turned into Text
The NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded project could help people with paralysis to communicate, and brings hope for greater commercial development of brain-computer interface technology.
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Tinnitus May Be Associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease
The authors concluded that tinnitus patients may have a higher risk of AD and PD. The presence of diabetes mellitus and head injury are also thought to increase the risk for AD, while head injury, cerebrovascular disease, and osteoarthritis could increase the risk of later PD.
Researchers Study Mechanism behind Auditory Sensory Gating
Their results, published in the journal “eNeuro,” show that the filtering begins at the very beginning of the auditory stimuli processing, ie, in the brainstem. This finding runs counter to earlier hypotheses, which held that it was a function of the frontal cortex control, which is heavily impacted in schizophrenics.
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Parental Mental Illness May Be Associated with Suicide in Adults with Tinnitus
Results of the study reveal that among patients seeking help for their tinnitus and hyperacusis, poor parental mental health was associated with the risk of suicidal and self-harm ideations across the life span.
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Starkey Leadership Team Travels to Asia to Launch Livio AI
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.
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Starkey Leadership Team Travels to Asia to Launch Livio AI
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.
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Researchers Find Link Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Disrupted Sleep
Two types of hippocampal sleep waves, slow oscillations and sleep spindles, are synced in healthy individuals, but not in Alzheimer’s patients.
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Researchers Find Link Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Disrupted Sleep
Two types of hippocampal sleep waves, slow oscillations and sleep spindles, are synced in healthy individuals, but not in Alzheimer’s patients.
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Researchers Identify Brain Regions in Blind Individuals Responsible for Sharpened Auditory Function
Research 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.
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Oticon Releases Survey Highlighting Tinnitus Prevalence in the UK
An 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.
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Imagining a Sound May Be Effective in Breaking Negative Associations, Researchers Find
Those 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.
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy May Reduce Tinnitus Symptoms, UK Study Shows
As 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.
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Misleading Auditory Expectation May Lead to Speech Misperception
The 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.
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Lip Reading May be Beneficial to Hearing Ability for CI Users, NIHR Researchers Find
The 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 MoreTinnitus Patients Report Reduced Cognitive Difficulties in Clinical Trial
Washington 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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