Hearing Loss News

Posted January 12, 2012:

• Deaf Sign Language Users Pick Up Faster on Body Language

Posted December 28, 2011:

• Using MP3 Players at High Volume Puts Teens at Risk for Early Hearing Loss, Say Researchers

Posted December 19, 2011:

• Gene Therapy for Ears

Posted December 9, 2011:

• People With DFNA2 Hearing Loss Show Increased Touch Sensitivity, Study Shows

Posted December 2, 2011:

• Even Unconsciously, Sound Helps Us See

Posted November 21, 2011:

• Key Molecules for Hearing and Balance Discovered: Can Hearing Be Restored?

Posted October 21, 2011:

• Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Suffer Cognitively During Disasters

Posted October 3, 2011:

• Multiple Surgeries and Anesthesia Exposure

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Scientists Discover an Organizing Principle for Our Sense of Smell Based on Pleasantness

Posted September 14, 2011:

• Exome Sequencing: Defining Hereditary Deafness

Posted September 13, 2011:

• Older Musicians Experience Less Age-Related Decline in Hearing Abilities Than Non-Musicians

Posted September 12, 2011:

• Tinnitus Discovery Could Lead to New Ways to Stop the Ringing: Retraining the Brain Could Reanimate Areas That Have Lost Input from the Ear

Posted September 2, 2011:

• Growth Hormone Helps Repair the Zebrafish Ear

Posted August 31, 2011:

• Mild Hearing Loss Linked to Brain Atrophy in Older Adults; Early Intervention Could Prevent Slide Toward Speech Comprehension Difficulties

Posted August 22, 2011:

• Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: A Twisted Tale

Posted August 15, 2011:

• Profound Reorganization in Brains of Adults Who Stutter: Auditory-Motor Integration Located in Different Part of Brain

Posted July 18, 2011:

• Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Associated With Hearing Loss in Adolescents

Posted July 13, 2011:

• Keeping Up Your Overall Health May Keep Dementia Away, Study Suggests

Posted June 23, 2011:

• Helping Deaf People to Enjoy Music Again

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Components of Speech Recognition Pathway in Humans Identified

Posted June 20, 2011:

• GPs Missing Early Dementia, UK Study Shows

Posted June 8, 2011:

• No Gender Difference in Risk-Taking Behavior, Study Suggests

Posted June 1, 2011:

• Retina Holds the Key to Better Vision in Deaf People

Posted May 27, 2011:

• Focusing Heavily on a Task Results in Experience of Deafness to Perfectly Audible Sounds

Posted May 24, 2011:

• Injection Therapy for Sudden Hearing Loss Disorder May Be Suitable Alternative to Oral Steroids

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Musical Experience Offsets Some Aging Effects: Older Musicians Excel in Memory and Hearing Speech in Noise Compared to Non-Musicians

Posted May 10, 2011:

• For Hearing Parts of Brain, Deafness Reorganizes Sensory Inputs, Not Behavioral Function
• Lowering Cost Doesn't Increase Hearing Aid Purchases, but Eliminating Costs Does

Posted May 1, 2011:

• New Genetic Cause of Neurodegeneration Discovered

Posted April 18, 2011:

• Tinnitus Caused by Too Little Inhibition of Brain Auditory Circuits, Study Finds

Posted April 7, 2011:

• Personal Touch: Hearing a Heartbeat Has the Same Effect as Looking Each Other in the Eye

Posted April 5, 2011:

• It’s Not Over When It's Over: Storing Sounds in the Inner Ear

Posted March 28, 2011:

• Will We Hear the Light? Surprising Discovery That Infrared Can Activate Heart and Ear Cells

Posted March 23, 2011:

• Study of How Brain Corrects Perceptual Errors Has Implications for Brain Injuries, Robotics

Posted March 21, 2011:

• Changes in Taste Function Related to Obesity and Chronic Ear Inflammation
• Newborn Hearing Screenings Do Not Appear to Identify All Children at Risk for Hearing Loss

Posted March 9, 2011:

• High-Volume Portable Music Players May Impair Ability to Clearly Discriminate Sounds

Posted February 25, 2011:

• Willingness to Listen to Music Is Biological, Study of Gene Variants Suggests

Posted February 23, 2011:

• Given Prior to Loud Noise, Two Drugs Protect Hearing Better Than One

Posted February 17, 2011:

• Chronically Ill Children Are 88% More Likely to Suffer Physical Abuse, Swedish Researchers Find

Posted February 14, 2011:

• Hearing Loss Associated With Development of Dementia

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Hearing With Your Nose: How Nasal Stem Cells Could Tackle Childhood Hearing Problems

Posted February 7, 2011:

• Language May Play Important Role in Learning the Meanings of Numbers

Posted February 8, 2011:

• Portsmouth Woman Receives Totally Implanted Hearing Aid

Posted January 25, 2011:

• Workplace Noise-Related Hearing Loss Affects Sleep Quality

Posted January 21, 2011:

• Function of Novel Molecule That Underlies Human Deafness Revealed

Posted January 20, 2011:

• Awake Despite Anesthesia

Posted January 18, 2011:

• Abuse Rates Higher Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Compared With Hearing Youths, Study Finds

Posted January 12, 2011:

• Tinnitus Treatment: Rebooting the Brain Helps Stop the Ring of Tinnitus in Rats
• Tinnitus Is the Result of the Brain Trying, but Failing, to Repair Itself

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