Research

Standardized questionnaire for tinnitus developed in Japanese

Details: Published on 06 September 2017

Tinnitus

Researchers from the Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, and from Machida Municipal Hospital, Machida, Tokyo, Japan have developed a Japanese version of the standardized tinnitus questionnaire for evaluating the clinical characteristics of patients.

Visual speech can benefit cochlear implant users

Details: Published on 29 August 2017

CI

Researchers working with the University of Nottingham in the UK have found that lip-reading may have a beneficial effect on the brain and on a person’s ability to hear with a cochlear implant, reports MedicalXpress.

In vivo manipulation of inner ear gene expression in mice

Details: Published on 14 August 2017

Genetics

An international team of researchers from several institutes and universities, led by a group at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Foundation for Advanced Biomedical Research in Padua, Italy, recently published findings of their study to control gene expression in mice in vivo using viral vectors.

Early intervention associated with better language skills

Details: Published on 10 August 2017

Childhood

Reuters Health recently reported on an article published in Pediatrics showing that children with permanent hearing loss (HL) may develop better language skills if they are fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants at an early age.

"We want to understand how people cope with tinnitus”

Details: Published on 09 August 2017

Tinnitus

Principal investigator at the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Department of Speech and Hearing Science at the university of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US), Dr. Fatima T. Husain has been conducting studies on hearing disorders like tinnitus

New center established in New Zealand to study hearing loss, balance disorders and their associated consequences

Details: Published on 31 July 2017

COGNITION

Professor Peter Thorne from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences is leading a team of New Zealand scientists and clinicians working on hearing loss and balance disorders at the newly established Eisdell Moore Centre at the university.

New study on the association between untreated hearing loss and cognitive function

Details: Published on 28 July 2017

Research

In a recent study with results published in mid-July in the journal Clinical Otolaryngology , researchers working in Australia have provided new evidence suggesting that there is a significant relationship between age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and both cognition and psychological status.

Improving vocabulary scores thanks to early detection

Details: Published on 27 July 2017

Early Assessment

MedPage Today recently highlighted the results of a cross-sectional study showing that children with bilateral hearing loss had improved vocabulary skills if they met all of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) guidelines.

Aging and difficulty filtering out background noise

Details: Published on 25 July 2017

Noise

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications has shown that aging affects neural modulation in the listening brain, explaining decreased speech comprehension.