Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
151 to 160 of 574 stories
view headlines only
-
'Vast Majority' of Acoustic Tumor Patients Benefit from Surgery, Study Suggests
December 7, 2010 — Surgery to remove tumors under the brain known as acoustic neuromas produces favorable outcomes in the "vast majority" of patients, according to one of the largest studies of its ... > full story -
Age-Related Hearing Loss and Folate in the Elderly
December 1, 2010 — Age-related hearing loss, one of the four most prevalent chronic conditions in the elderly, is associated with low serum levels of folic acid, according to new ... > full story -
Growth-Factor Gel Shows Promise as Hearing-Loss Treatment
November 24, 2010 — A new treatment has been developed for sudden sensorineural hearing loss, a condition that causes deafness in 40,000 Americans each year, usually in early middle-age. Researchers describe the ... > full story -
Perception
Language Acquisition
Child Development
Brain Injury
Neuroscience
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Banking on Predictability, the Mind Increases Efficiency
November 22, 2010 — Listeners can become effectively deaf to sounds that do not conform to their brains' expectations. Like musical compression saves space on your mp3 player, the human brain has ways of recoding sounds ... > full story -
Brain Region Responsible for Speech Illusion Identified; Study Explains How Visual Cues Disrupt Speech Perception
November 16, 2010 — Watching lips move is key to accurately hearing what someone says. The McGurk Effect, an auditory phenomenon in which viewing lips moving out of sync with words creates other words, has been known ... > full story -
Why You Can Listen at Cocktail Parties: Songbirds' Individual Brain Cells Are Tuned to Particular Sounds
November 16, 2010 — Nerve cells in the brains of songbirds are sensitive to specific sounds, and only respond when those sounds occur during communication, a recent study shows. The finding helps explain people's ... > full story -
Musicians Less Likely to Experience Age-Related Changes in the Auditory Cortex
November 16, 2010 — The old adage "use it or lose it" applies to hearing, suggests a new study. Older musicians do not experience certain changes in the auditory cortex -- the part of the brain involved with hearing -- ... > full story -
Hearing Loss Common Following Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer
November 15, 2010 — Patients who undergo radiation therapy for head and neck cancer appear more likely to experience hearing loss and to be more disabled by its effects than those who do not receive such treatment, ... > full story -
New Test Can Screen All Deafness Genes Simultaneously
November 15, 2010 — Researchers have developed a test that can screen all of the genes known to cause deafness in a single run. The new test, called OtoSCOPE, could provide families with useful information more rapidly ... > full story -
Deaf Adults See Better Than Hearing People, New Study Finds
November 10, 2010 — Adults born deaf react more quickly to objects at the edge of their visual field than hearing people, according to groundbreaking new research. For the first time ever, scientists have tested how ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,382
more 
