University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and alters their sensitivity to different frequencies. Scientists have known that…
Columbia-led study offers new insight into organization of brain’s listening center; provides roadmap for development of hearing-aid technologies inspired by the brain. Our brains have…
Scientists gain understanding of mechanisms that determine growth patterns of tiny hair cells within the ear. A study of the genetic make-up of zebrafish has…
A new study published today, September 26, 2019, in The American Journal of Human Genetics has identified 44 genes linked to age-related hearing loss giving…
Use of hearing aids was linked with lower risks of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, depression, anxiety, and injurious falls in an analysis of medical…
Scientists at Harvard Medical School say they have ended a 40-year-quest for the elusive identity of the sensor protein responsible for hearing and balance. The…
According to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute, up to two thousand hearing impaired children are born in Germany each year. For some of them…
A team of researchers has discovered a drug combination that can regenerate hair cells in the inner ear, offering a potential new way to treat…
A team of researchers has developed a new approach to replace damaged sound-sensing hair cells, which eventually may lead to therapies for people who live…
A team of scientists has discovered a combination of drugs that expands the population of progenitor cells in the ear and induces them to become…
New research from Yale University reveals that genetically reducing AMPK activity delays hereditary hearing loss in mice. Hereditary hearing loss can worsen over time and…
Using advanced tools to boost the production of a key protein in the ears of mice, a team of scientists has restored the hearing of…
Newborn babies only a few hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign one. A new study indicates…
By using a drug to stimulate resident cells to become new hair cells, scientists from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School…
There are many people who dislike clashing dissonances of some modernist composers. It’s been long thought that dissonant musical chords contain acoustic frequencies that interfere…
There are more than 275 million people that have moderate to profound hearing loss, and many are caused by a breach in the connection between…