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Cortical sensitivity to binaural amplitude-modulated sounds
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- Published on 21 June 2013

Each year at the British Academy of Audiology conference, nearly 100 posters are presented about the latest research projects that have been undertaken. Prizes are awarded by a panel of judges and this year there were joint winners. The following report is from one of the winning projects that looked at cortical sensitivity.
Pawel Jastreboff: The treatment of tinnitus and decreased sound tolerance with TRT
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- Published on 20 June 2013

A subject highly relevant to tinnitus treatment, but still somehow underappreciated, as Pawel Jastreboff defined the Decreased Sound Tolerance (DST). The professor at the Department of Otolaryngology at the Emory University School of Medicine of Atlanta in USA was invited to the 7th TRI Tinnitus Conference to discourse about the role of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) in relation with DST and tinnitus treatment, both from the point of view of hearing and clinical implications.
Quality of Life for Youth with profound sensorineural hearing loss
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- Published on 19 June 2013

Negative effects of suppressing tinnitus
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- Published on 17 June 2013

Speech in noise improves with age in kids
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- Published on 10 June 2013

Smoke exposure affects newborn hearing
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- Published on 06 June 2013

How to hear when the pinna is absent
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- Published on 05 June 2013
Microtia artresia is a pathology present at birth with multiple causes and which manifests itself through a malformation of the structures of the outer and middle ear. In Mexico, one of these cases appears in every six thousand newborn, and such patients are eligible for high technology treatment and cosmetic solutions.
Princeton use 3-D Printing to create bionic ear
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- Published on 03 June 2013
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Manchester researchers breakthrough in understanding inherited deafness
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- Published on 30 May 2013
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Link between autism and SSCD discovered
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- Published on 23 May 2013
