The Audiologist Informer

HearingTracker Audiologist Matthew Allsop details five hearing aid features that most consumers don't know exist—ranging from motion sensors that help the devices make better listening adjustments or even detect falls, to automatically adjusting vents, language translation, telecoils, and the use of artificial intelligence.

Cliff Olson, AuD, discusses his experiences at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas which wrapped up yesterday afternoon.

The automated audiogram image recognition feature in the iPhone has low accuracy, according to a research letter published in 'JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery'.

This cross-sectional study found that older people (≥55 years) with DFNA9, a hereditary disorder characterized by progressive sensorineural hearing loss, demonstrated cognitive deficits in comparison with their healthy matched controls.

The researchers show that presbycusis and subsequent levels of neurochemicals [auditory gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (Glu)] were associated with reduced speech perception or cognitive impairment. The study suggests that modulation of GABA neurotransmission could lead to new treatment strategies for cognitive impairment in presbycusis patients.