Scientists Create Drug-like Cocktail to Regenerate Hair Cells
Scientists at Mass Eye and Ear may have developed a solution for hearing loss by creating a drug-like cocktail that regenerated hair cells in a mouse model.
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Brain Synchronization Could Help Treat Tinnitus
Most of the time, our brain receives different input from each of our ears, but we nevertheless perceive speech as unified sounds. This process takes place through synchronization of the areas of the brain involved with the help of gamma waves, neurolinguists at the University of Zurich (UZH) have now discovered
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‘Parentese’ Can Help Boost Child Language Development
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Researchers Identify Brain Regions in Blind Individuals Responsible for Sharpened Auditory Function
Research has shown that people who are born blind or become blind early in life often have a more nuanced sense of hearing, especially when it comes to musical abilities and tracking moving objects in space (imagine crossing a busy road using sound alone). For decades scientists have wondered what changes in the brain might underlie these enhanced auditory abilities.
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Mechanism Associated with Hearing Impairment after Listening to Loud Music Discovered
Until now, scientists have thought that the tiny membrane has a mainly mechanical function, but the discovery made by the LiU researchers suggests that the tectorial membrane may play an important role in regulating hearing by storing calcium.
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Researchers Restore Hearing via Gene Therapy in Deaf Mouse Model
Researchers have managed to restore hearing in an adult mouse model of DFNB9 deafness, a hearing disorder that represents one of the most frequent cases of congenital genetic deafness
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PH Imbalance in Brain Cells May Be Related to Alzheimer’s, Johns Hopkins Research Shows
One root of Alzheimer’s disease may be a simple imbalance in acid-alkaline—or pH—chemistry inside endosomes, the nutrient and chemical cargo shuttles in cells.
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Salt- or Sugar-Based Solution May Diminish Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
The researchers found that sensory hair cell death occurred immediately after exposure to loud noise and was irreversible. Neuron damage, however, had a delayed onset, opening a window of opportunity for treatment.
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Researchers Identify Protein That May Influence Shape of Ear’s Sensory Hairs
The scientists think Daple influences the shape of the hair bundles indirectly, by determining the position of the first filament to emerge at what becomes the apex of each bundle.
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Duke Researchers Find Eye Movement Triggers Eardrum Movement
The researchers found that keeping the head still but shifting the eyes to one side or the other sparks vibrations in the eardrums, even in the absence of any sounds.
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Researchers Create Algorithm to Predict Language Ability in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
This study’s novel use of artificial intelligence to understand brain structure underlying language development has broad reaching implications for children with developmental challenges.
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Researchers Study Sound Quality of Spider Silk
Would you want a spider web inside your ear? Probably not. But if you’re able to put aside the creepy factor, new research shows that fine fibers like spider silk actually improve the quality of microphones for hearing aids.
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Lip Reading May be Beneficial to Hearing Ability for CI Users, NIHR Researchers Find
The study reportedly found that, in contrast to existing theory, the more a person’s brain became responsive to lip reading the more it also became responsive to sounds delivered through their CI, and the better they were able to hear.
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Study Confirms Our Brains Interpret Sign Language As a Language
There has been debate as to what role sign language has played in language evolution, and whether the structure of sign language shares similarities with spoken language. New research shows that our brains detect deep similarities between speech and sign language–interpreting both equally as language.
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Auditory Speech Perception Requires Tongue Movement
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found that babies need free tongue movement to decipher speech sounds, and the study is the first to discover a direct link between infants’ oral-motor movements and auditory speech perception.
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How Noise Exposure Alters the Brain
Researchers have found that, in mice, prolonged noise exposure altered cells connected to the brain, and it’s likely that synapses become enlarged in noise exposure to create space for chemicals that deliver messages to the brain.
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Early Supporting Cells May Combat Causes of Deafness
New research shows that harnessing the regenerative power of early supporting cells of the inner ear could lead to new strategies to combat many causes of deafness.
Read MoreWired for Listening: Language Universals Found at Birth
Are infants born with knowledge about what human words sound like? Are infants biased to consider certain sound sequences as more word-like than others? A new study suggests that, indeed, this is the case.
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