Neuroscience
How hearing loss can change the way nerve cells are wired
It's winter, and your head is stuffed up from the cold or flu. Everything sounds muffled.
Dec 12, 2016
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News tagged with auditory nerve
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers find evidence of 'hidden hearing loss' in college-age human subjects
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, linked symptoms of difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments with evidence of cochlear synaptopathy, a condition known as "hidden hearing loss," ...
Sep 12, 2016
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Neuroscience
Experiment reveals how cells that process sound respond to complex stimuli
If you stimulate an auditory nerve cell over and over in a uniform pattern in the lab, it quickly runs out of the chemicals that it uses to send messages from the ear to the brain.
Jun 25, 2015
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Neuroscience
How noise changes the way the brain gets information
Cells that relay information from the ear to the brain can change in significant ways in response to the noise level in the environment.
May 5, 2015
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Health
Music to your ears? New research examines evidence of damage to your hearing
Many people listen to loud music without realizing that this can affect their hearing. This could lead to difficulties in understanding speech during age-related hearing loss which affects up to half of people over the age ...
Aug 19, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study brings scientists a step closer to silencing tinnitus
New research funded by charity Action on Hearing Loss suggests that tinnitus can be eliminated by blocking signals between the ear and brain, offering hope to suffers that a cure is within reach, with prolonged exposure to ...
Jun 16, 2014
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Medical research
New discovery paves the way for medicine for people with hearing disabilities
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a biological circadian clock in the hearing organ, the cochlea. This circadian clock controls how well hearing damage may heal and opens up a new way of treating ...
Feb 27, 2014
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Neuroscience
Tinnitus study signals new advance in understanding link between exposure to loud sounds and hearing loss
(Medical Xpress)—A research team investigating tinnitus, from the University of Leicester, has revealed new insights into the link between the exposure to loud sounds and hearing loss.
Feb 14, 2014
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Medical research
Design prototype chip makes possible a fully implantable cochlear implant
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a prototype system-on-chip (SoC) that could make possible a fully implanted cochlear implant. ...
Feb 10, 2014
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Medical research
Computer models of neuronal sound processing in the brain lead to cochlear implant improvements
Children learning to speak depend on functional hearing. So-called cochlear implants allow deaf people to hear again by stimulating the auditory nerve directly. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are ...
Dec 2, 2013
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