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Mass Eye and Ear Researchers Awarded $12.5 Million NIH Grant to Continue Hidden Hearing Loss

A team of Mass Eye and Ear researchers in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories have been awarded a five-year, $12.5 million P50 Clinical Research Center Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue their research on cochlear synaptopathy, or hidden hearing loss, a type of hearing damage that was reportedly first discovered, according to an announcement from Mass Eye & Ear.

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HHF Releases New Video for ‘Protect Your Hearing Month’

Marking October’s National Protect Your Hearing Month, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) announced that it is releasing the first of a new video series called “A Few Words About Hearing” that captures the stories of nine people—from all walks of life—who describe what it's like to live with hearing damaged by loud noise.

Study Explains ‘Cocktail Party Effect’ in Hearing Loss

Plenty of people struggle to make sense of a multitude of converging voices in a crowded room. Commonly known as the “cocktail party effect,” people with hearing loss find it’s especially difficult to understand speech in a noisy environment. New research suggests that, for some listeners, this may have less to do with actually discerning sounds. Instead, it may be a processing problem in which two ears blend different sounds together – a condition known as binaural pitch fusion.

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NIDCD Names Lisa L. Cunningham, PhD, as Scientific Director

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that it has named Lisa L. Cunningham, PhD, as the scientific director/director of the Division of Intramural Research. In this role, Dr Cunningham will oversee the intramural or “in-house” research programs, which have roughly 165 employees working in 13 labs.

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HIA Releases Results of Hearing Loss Survey

New research announced by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA) reveals that 4 out of 5 Americans consider hearing loss serious, but ignoring the problem is more common than you may think. Fewer than 16% of adults ages 20-69 who need a hearing aid use one. That number almost doubles to 30% for adults over age 70 who need a hearing aid but don’t use one, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

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Primary Progressive Aphasia Memory Loss Measured

Primary progressive aphasia is a rare neurodegenerative condition characterized by prominent language problems that worsen over time. About 40% of people with the condition have underlying Alzheimer’s disease. But a new study has found that people with the condition may not develop the memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

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