http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—The cochlear implant is widely considered to be the most successful neural prosthetic on the market. The implant, which helps deaf individuals perceive sound, translates auditory information into electrical signals that go directly to the brain, bypassing cells that don't serve this function as they should because they are damaged. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-device-resolution-deaf-individuals-opt.html Medical research Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:25:01 EST news284361856 Scientists have long thought that mice might serve as a model for how humans learn to vocalize. But new research led by scientists at Washington State University-Vancouver has found that, unlike humans and songbirds, mice do not learn how to vocalize. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-mice-innate-ability-vocalize-deaf.html Neuroscience Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:00:03 EST news283522831 Members of the Deaf community who suffer from mental health problems need culturally sensitive treatment to avoid misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment, according to a report in the March Journal of Psychiatric Practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-culturally-sensitive-treatment-deaf-patients.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:55:16 EST news282224991 University of Miami (UM) Psychologist Alexandra L. Quittner leads one of the largest, most nationally representative studies of the effects of parenting on very young, deaf children who have received cochlear implants. The findings indicate that mothers who are most sensitive in their interactions with their children receiving cochlear implants have kids that develop language faster, almost "catching up" to their hearing peers. The report is published in the Journal of Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-mom-sensitivity-language-children-loss.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:24:03 EST news281960623 Current special education laws are geared towards integrating special-needs children into the general classroom environment from a young age, starting as early as preschool. Prof. Tova Most of Tel Aviv University's Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education and the Department of Communications Disorders at the Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions says that these laws present a unique set of challenges for children with hearing loss, and that a sense of isolation may inhibit a successful education. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-skills-crucial-impaired-children-classroom.html Health Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:11:15 EST news274972269 Languages are highly complex systems and yet most children seem to acquire language easily, even in the absence of formal instruction. New research on young children's use of British Sign Language (BSL) sheds light on one of the mechanisms - iconicity - that may endow children with this amazing ability. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-road-language-iconic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:22 EST news272041816 A new study has revealed that those with congenital amusia (commonly refereed to as tone-deafness) have trouble decoding emotions in speech and find it hard to pick up on emotional cues in conversation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tone-deaf-people-limited-ability-emotional.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:20:08 EST news270806654 (Medical Xpress) -- Doctors should reconsider the common practice of avoiding the use of cochlear implants in deaf children with developmental delays, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-benefits-cochlear-implants-deaf-babies.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:00:01 EST news263021821 People who are born deaf process the sense of touch differently than people who are born with normal hearing, according to research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The finding reveals how the early loss of a sense— in this case hearing—affects brain development. It adds to a growing list of discoveries that confirm the impact of experiences and outside influences in molding the developing brain. The study is published in the July 11 online issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-deaf-brain-differently.html Neuroscience Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:00:16 EST news261156885 (Medical Xpress) -- Most agree that the earlier you expose a child to a language, the easier it is for that child to pick it up. The same rules apply for deaf children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-early-exposure-language-deaf-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:05:17 EST news258098627 In a discovery that could help instructors better teach deaf children, a team of University of Chicago researchers has found that a gesture-sign mismatch made while explaining a math problem suggests that a deaf child is experiencing a teachable moment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-deaf-children-gesture-mismatches-clues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:49:55 EST news252841708 A Review in this week's Lancet says that mental health problems are about twice as prevalent in deaf people compared with the general population, and also reports disparities in access to and quality of mental health care for deaf people. The Review is by Dr Johannes Fellinger, Health Centre for the Deaf at the Hospital of St John of God, Linz, Austria, and Medical University, Vienna, Austria, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-mental-health-problems-prevalent-deaf.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:30:01 EST news251052707 Deaf people who use sign language are quicker at recognizing and interpreting body language than hearing non-signers, according to new research from investigators at UC Davis and UC Irvine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-deaf-language-users-faster-body.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:00:00 EST news245599159 (Medical Xpress) -- An ongoing study of 45 deaf children who had two cochlear implants finds that their language skills are within the normal range. Cochlear implants replace the eardrum by delivering an electric signal from a microphone to the auditory nerves located in the cochlea in the inner ear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-significant-language-cochlear-implants.html Medical research Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:54:43 EST news238751673 We all know that feedback from ‘educators’ is very important; especially when it is related to the correct execution of an activity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-it-is-all-in-the.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:04:14 EST news232963433 Researchers from the University of Southampton are investigating how to help deaf people, who have received a cochlear implant, to get more enjoyment from music. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-deaf-people-music.html Other Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:04:02 EST news228045812 People who are deaf benefit from better vision due to the fact their retinas develop differently, experts at the University of Sheffield have shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-retina-key-vision-deaf-people.html Medical research Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:48:01 EST news226169268