Research
Predictions for 2031: Thomas Behrens: All-sensing, emancipating devices
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- Published on 06 December 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
Another of our 2031 predictions is a logical outflowing from years of lab work at Oticon, and this one comes from the principal shaper of the Danish brand's BrainHearing philosophy.
Dogs are mentally uplifting and cost effective in the lives of deaf people, pioneering study affirms
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- Published on 03 December 2021
support
Having an assistance dog significantly improves the wellbeing, mental health, and independence of deaf people, reducing social isolation and fearfulness. Who would've thought it?
London research envisages a future cochlear implant that self-curls into individual cochlea shapes
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- Published on 01 December 2021
implants
The intriguing concept of a cochlear implant (CI) that self-shapes on insertion has moved an early step closer to materialisation, having successfully met simulation and analysis studies by its Imperial College proposers.
Predictions for 2031: Christophe Micheyl: Earbuds morning to night, all of us, all ages
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- Published on 26 November 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
One of our French sources from the 15 worldwide audiology experts we asked for visions of audiology in the year 2031, Christophe Micheyl, predicts a society in which everyone wears earbuds morning to night.
Predictions for 2031: Prof. Helen Cullington: The instant and total hearing fix
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- Published on 23 November 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
Imagine a world in which we no longer stress any distinction between normal-hearing persons and those with hearing loss; could this happen by 2031?
Spanish National Research Council work is unlocking the potential of nitrones to treat hearing loss
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- Published on 11 November 2021
BIOMEDICINE
The potential of nitrones - potent antioxidant molecules - to treat not only congenital hearing loss but also presbyacusis has been discovered by experts working under the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Research breakthrough finds genes behind rare condition that causes hearing loss and infertility
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- Published on 03 November 2021
genetics
A Manchester-led international research project has found eight different genes that can cause Perrault syndrome, a condition resulting in hearing loss in men and women, and early menopause or infertility in women.
Predictions for 2031: Jean-Luc Puel: The fruits of research
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- Published on 01 November 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
We asked 15 figures from the audiology world to tell us what their sphere will be talking about in the year 2031. Leading French researcher Jean-Luc Puel micro-scanned the future for his answers.
How hearing instruments can improve musical instruments
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- Published on 05 October 2021
music
BIHIMA spoke to Barbara Simon, Clinical Research Audiologist at Bernafon in Bern Switzerland, about their music programme and the results of a recent study they conducted with musicians.
Is portable screening for hearing loss good enough to become the norm, replacing sound-treated booths?
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- Published on 29 September 2021
teleaudiology
New research published by the American Journal of Audiology has found that a portable device used in non-sound booth environments was "comparable to clinical audiometry for the identification of hearing loss at most frequencies".
