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Consumers are confusing hearing aids with hearing healthcare. Many will ultimately seek care from an audiologist and discover the difference.
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These researchers show that the aging auditory cortex is unable to fully suppress its responses to background noise. During an auditory behavior, fewer neurons were suppressed in older vs younger mice, which led to higher pre-stimulus activity and more false alarms. Future work could help identify lost circuits that could help preserve processing ability in old age.
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Could hearing and seeing birds be a future therapeutic to improve mental wellbeing? Findings in this study show improvements were evident not only in healthy people but also in those with a diagnosis of depression, and lasted for up to 8 hours.
sciencedaily․comNews
- The Impact of Hearing Loss on Social Engagement, Loneliness, and Depression hearingtracker․com
- Tepezza Hearing Side Effects Include Hearing Loss, Resulting in Lawsuits drug-injury․com
- You may have hearing loss and not know it. Here’s what it sounds like. | Paywall washingtonpost․com
- Neuromod Publishes Further Research Showing Breakthrough in Tinnitus Treatment | Neuromod Devices kommunikasjon․ntb․no
- Optimizing hearing aid use can improve quality of life for older adults with dementia news․google․com
- ASHA Voices: What Keeps People with Disabilities from Receiving Needed Care leader․pubs․asha․org
Audio/Video
- Dr. Darrow Podcast: Hearing Loss, Social Isolation and Cognitive Decline - 30 Years Before We All Realized It, with Barbara Weinstein, PhD m․youtube․com
- Eriksholm Audiology Summer Camp (Oticon) Video Recap | LinkedIn linkedin․com
- Dr. Cliff Short Video: Sony CRE-C10 OTC Hearing Aids! Review Coming Soon! youtube․com
- Nov. 8 HLAA Webinar: The FDA Regulations for Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aids, with Tom Powers, PhD hearingloss․org
Research
- Risk of COVID-19 vaccine-related tinnitus | Paywall link․springer․com
- Sox2 is required in supporting cells for normal levels of vestibular hair cell regeneration in adult mice sciencedirect․com
- A Glimpse of Memory Through the Eyes: Pupillary Responses Measured During Encoding Reflect the Likelihood of Subsequent Memory Recall in an Auditory Free Recall Test journals․sagepub․com
- Health State Utility Values Associated with Cochlear Implants in Adults: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis journals․lww․com
- Evaluation of postural stability and vestibulo-ocular reflex in adults with chronic suppurative otitis media link․springer․com
- Measuring resonance frequency of the middle ear in school-aged children: potential applications for detecting middle ear dysfunction tandfonline․com
- The effect of phoneme-based auditory training on speech intelligibility in hearing-aid users tandfonline․com
- Dementia and risk of visual impairment in Chinese older adults nature․com
- Smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment reveals mental health benefits of birdlife nature․com
- Effects of sensorineural hearing loss on formant-frequency discrimination: Measurements and models biorxiv․org
- Auditory-nerve Model including Efferent Dynamic Gain Control with Inputs from Cochlear Nucleus and Inferior Colliculus biorxiv․org