Hearing

Study Uncovers Abnormalities Responsible For Tinnitus, Chronic Pain WASHINGTON — Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and Germany’s Technische Universität München have uncovered the brain malady responsible for tinnitus and for chronic pain — the uncomfortable, sometimes agonizing sensations that persist long after an initial injury. In a fall issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, …

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Why You Shouldn’t Use Cotton Swabs To Clean Your Ears Contrary to popular belief, you shouldn’t clean your ears with cotton swabs, as this could lead to hearing loss, damage or worst, said Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Senior Consultant Prof Dr Asma Abdullah of the Canselor Tuanku Muhriz Hospital (HCTM) of The National University …

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New Test Seeks To Uncover Early Hearing Loss In People With Cystic Fibrosis Experts in Nottingham are investigating whether a new type of hearing test could successfully detect early hearing loss in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). Hearing loss is a side effect of some of the intravenous antibiotics used to treat the recurring chest …

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Stereotypes Around Aging Can Negatively Impact Memory And Hearing University of Toronto – Toronto, ON – A study led by researchers at the University of Toronto shows that when older adults feel negatively about aging, they may lack confidence in their abilities to hear and remember things, and perform poorly at both. “People’s feelings about getting …

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Is Seeing Believing? People Are Not Good At Identifying Where Sights, Sounds Originate Study by UCLA psychologists reveals that our senses are far from flawless. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES – Our vision and hearing aren’t as reliable as we might think, according to a study by life scientists at UCLA. “Our basic sensory representation …

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Disclosure Strategies May Improve Communication For Those With Hearing Loss Boston, Mass. — Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers surveyed 337 patients with hearing loss to better understand the language they use with communication partners to disclose their disability. Their findings, published online in the journal Ear and Hearing on October 28, 2015, may be used …

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How Cells In The Developing Ear ‘Practice’ Hearing Johns Hopkins Medicine – Before the fluid of the middle ear drains and sound waves penetrate for the first time, the inner ear cells of newborn rodents practice for their big debut. Researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have figured out the molecular chain of events that enables …

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Protein Movement Of Hair Bundles In The Inner Ear May Preserve Hearing For Life Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine finding holds promise for repairing damaged hearing. Hearing is made possible when hair bundles protruding from the tops of hair cells capture the energy of sound waves, converting them into electrical signals that stimulate …

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Penn Medicine Researchers Discover Hidden Brain Pathways Crucial To Communication Using lasers to manipulate brain activity, researchers zero in on mechanisms underlying key hearing phenomena. PHILADELPHIA – Being able to understand speech is essential to our evolution as humans. Hearing lets us perceive the same word even when spoken at different speeds or pitches, and …

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Babies Need Free Tongue Movement to Decipher Speech Sounds University of British Columbia – Inhibiting infants’ tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers with the University of British Columbia have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants’ oral-motor movements and auditory speech perception. In the study, …

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