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Research Reveals Exactly How the Human Brain Adapts to Injury
January 16, 2013 For the first time, scientists have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts to injury. The research shows that when one brain area loses ... > full story -
Stress Makes Exhausted Women Over-Sensitive to Sounds
January 15, 2013 Women suffering from stress-related exhaustion exhibit hypersensitivity to sounds when exposed to stress. In some cases, a sound level corresponding to a normal conversation can be perceived as ... > full story -
Knee Replacement Surgery May Lead to Weight Gain
January 14, 2013 Patients who undergo knee replacement surgery may be at risk of gaining more weight than their peers who have not had the surgery, according to a five-year ... > full story -
New Implant Replaces Impaired Middle Ear
January 14, 2013 Functionally deaf patients can gain normal hearing with a new implant that replaces the middle ear. The unique invention has been approved for a clinical ... > full story -
Music from the Ear: Researchers Show How an Objective Audiometric Test Can Become Even More Reliable
January 10, 2013 Not only can the human ear detect sounds, it can also generate them. If the ear hears the two upper tones of a major triad, it produces the fundamental of the chord which can then be measured. This ... > full story -
Sensory Hair Cells Regenerated, Hearing Restored in Noise-Damaged Mammal Ear
January 9, 2013 Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that hair cells can be regenerated in an adult mammalian ear by using a drug to stimulate resident cells to become new hair cells, resulting in ... > full story -
First Oral Drug for Spinal Cord Injury Improves Movement in Mice
January 8, 2013 An experimental oral drug given to mice after a spinal cord injury was effective at improving limb movement after the injury, a new study ... > full story -
Adaptable Prosthetics for Amputees Being Developed in the UK
January 8, 2013 Approximately one in every 1,000 people in the UK is an amputee. Many lose their limbs as the result of tragic accidents or due to active military combat and for some amputees losing a limb can feel ... > full story -
New Stem Cell Approach for Blindness Successful in Mice
January 7, 2013 Blind mice can see again, after researchers transplanted developing cells into their eyes and found they could re-form the entire light-sensitive layer of the ... > full story -
Mechanism of Hearing Is Similar to Car Battery, Researcher Learns
January 7, 2013 Biologists have shown that one of the mechanisms involved in hearing is similar to the battery in your car. And if that isn't interesting enough, the scientists advanced their knowledge of human ... > full story
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