Research
Virtual reality experience to immerse the user in silence
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- Published on 18 October 2018
VR
Australia’s Shepherd Centre, a charity providing a family-centered early intervention program to teach children born deaf or with hearing loss how to develop spoken language, has developed the experience to help people appreciate this condition.
Risk of readmission to hospital higher for elderly with hearing loss
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- Published on 11 October 2018
Seniors
Researchers have found that patients with difficulty communicating with medical personnel had a 32% increased likelihood of being readmitted to hospital within 30 days.
Predicting how cochlear implant recipients will hear speech
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- Published on 27 September 2018
CI
Researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia and Cochlear Limited have teamed up to carry out a study that could lead to more accurate predictions of how people receiving cochlear implants will understand speech.
Researchers awarded a grant from the NIDCD
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- Published on 27 September 2018
Research
Tulane University press center recently announced that a researcher at the institution has been awarded a USD 1.8 million grant to study how auditory signals are processed in the context of normal hearing and how they are altered in hearing loss.
The effects of unilateral hearing loss on spatial hearing
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- Published on 05 September 2018
Research
Researchers at Oxford University’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics recently published a review article and pointed out that unilateral hearing loss in infancy can disrupt spatial hearing, even after binaural inputs are restored, among other conclusions.
New technology may prove useful in imaging the inner ear
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- Published on 04 September 2018
Synchrotron light
Harvard researchers working in Canada have conducted a study finding that a specific type of light called synchrotron light could produce high-quality images enabling researchers to distinguish between damaged and healthy nerve fibers and sensory cells, reports the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
New technology to help deaf-blind people to watch television
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- Published on 27 August 2018
Accessibility
In an age where the importance of accessibility is increasingly recognized, an innovative technology is now turning television signals into a form that deaf-blind people can understand, reports the news source Science News for Students.
Hearing loss as a sign of type 2 diabetes
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- Published on 24 August 2018
Prevention
It appears that the mechanism involved could be diabetes-related damage to the blood vessels and nerves in the inner ear. This damage may cause a degree of hearing loss, providing an early sign of abnormal glucose metabolism, alongside unexplained weight loss and fatigue.
Relieving tinnitus with mindfulness therapy
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- Published on 10 August 2018
MBCT
The University of Bath, UK recently reported on a study using a mindfulness-based approach to relieve tinnitus.
Approaches to tinnitus management
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- Published on 30 July 2018
Tinnitus
A group of researchers from Queen’s University and Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, Ontario (Canada) recently published a review article in the journal Canadian Family Physician on practical approaches to managing patients with tinnitus.
