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Understanding the Connection Between Untreated Hearing Loss and Dementia
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that older adults with greater severity of hearing loss were more likely to have dementia, but the likelihood of dementia was lower among hearing aid users compared to non-users.The findin...
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Study Shows Link Between Hearing Loss and Autism Spectrum Disorder
A cross-disciplinary team of researchers in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has discovered hearing impairment in a preclinical model of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).More specifically, the researchers report in the Journal of Neuro...
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Research Uncovers New Path to Treating Age-Related Hearing Loss
Looking for answers about how the brain works amid age-related hearing loss, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers discovered that old mice were less capable than young mice of “turning off” certain actively firing brain cells in the midst of ambient noise. The result, t...
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Game-Based Test Developed to Detect Hearing Loss in Children
A game-based test that detects hearing loss in children has recently been awarded a European innovation medal. Both the test and the technology behind it have been developed by Norwegian researchers.The project ‘I Hear You' is a collaborative effort involving the Norw...
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Researchers Identify Hearing Loss in Genetic Subtypes of Mitochondrial Disease
Patients with mitochondrial disease may develop a wide range of symptoms, including sensorineural hearing loss likely due to dysfunctional energy production in the inner ear. In a retrospective study, researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program at Child...
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Researchers Study Ways to Reprogram Hair Cells in Inner Ear
About 430 million people around the world experience disabling hearing loss. In the United States, approximately 37.5 million adults report some trouble hearing. Hearing loss can happen when any part of the ear or the nerves that carry information on sounds to the brain do not wo...
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Brain Flexibility Can Improve Hearing Experience With Cochlear Implants
Kickstarting the brain's natural ability to adjust to new circumstances, or neuroplasticity, improves how effectively a cochlear implant can restore hearing loss, a new study in deaf rats shows. The investigation, researchers say, may help explain the extreme variation in h...
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Study Examines How Brain Responds to Hearing Loss
Researchers at the University of Colorado suggest that the portion of the brain devoted to hearing can become reorganized — reassigned to other functions — even with early-stage hearing loss, and may play a role in cognitive decline.Anu Sharma, of the Department of Sp...
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Research Shows Updated Needed in Childhood Hearing Loss Screening
Screening programs for childhood hearing loss need to become better at collecting data and measuring outcomes in order to increase quality, such as improving the percentage of follow-ups, a new thesis from Karolinska Institutet reports.One in 500 infants have a permanent hearing...
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Scientists Uncover Structure of Hearing Mechanism
Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have revealed, for the first time and in near-atomic detail, the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing.“This is the last sensory system in which that fundamental molecular machinery has remain...
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