The Audiologist Informer

The Senate on Sunday passed Democrats' $750 billion health care, tax, and climate bill. However, a bid by Sen Bernie Sanders to expand Medicare coverage for eyeglasses, hearing aids and dental care was overwhelmingly defeated.

Gus Mueller and Dave Kemp discuss the innovation occurring within today’s hearing aids and consumer hearables, and highlight the key differences between the two product sets.

The study examined young dental-school students who had exposure to high-frequency non-traumatic dental-drill noise during their course of study. The findings support the idea that exposure to non-traumatic noise over time could be related to reduced envelope processing in the absence of clinically defined audiological abnormalities. This suggests cochlear synaptopathy, although central auditory dysfunction could also play a role.

A new study reveals striking similarities in both behaviors and neuroanatomical changes between people with schizophrenia and behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia which can cause personality changes.