Archive for the 'Hearing and Deafness' Category
Have You Heard? HearUSA Expands Footprint Into Charlotte
HearUSA (AMEX:EAR), one of the nation’s largest hearing health care organizations, is making a new domestic in Charlotte. HearUSA now operates five centers in the area, thanks to the acquisition and consolidation of Charlotte Audiology, Metrolina Hearing Aids and Hearing Aids nowadays hearing care c…
Deaf Patients prepare out Sounds With strange Device - “Bionic Ear” Processes Sound Directly Through Brain
Children laughing, a barking dog, a screaming siren - these are sounds most of us take for granted. For public who are deaf, they are noises they only wish they could compose out. Now, for some who have been in a silent world, a “bionic ear” device is helping that world come alive. For years, Phyl…
New Findings Contradict A Prevailing Belief About The Inner Ear
A healthy ear emits soft sounds in response to the sounds that travel in. Detectable with sensitive microphones, these otoacoustic emissions help doctors experiment newborns’ hearing. A deaf ear doesn’t produce these echoes.New research involving the University of Michigan and Oregon Health and Scie…
ASHA, Califone To Collaborate On organization’s BHSM Campaign
The American Speech-Language-Hearing organization (ASHA) announced that Califone universal, Inc. has agreed to become a corporate sponsor of the ASHA’s May is Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) campaign.Original post by Dentistry News From Medical News Today
Current Services Fail Patients With Hearing And Balance Disorders, UK
A new working party report from the Royal College of Physicians says that patients with hearing and balance disorders can wait years to be seen by an appropriate specialist, and often remain undiagnosed and inadequately managed. that is considering a committed and specialised audiological/vestibula…
Variety Of Approaches Help Children Overcome Auditory Processing And Language Problems
For children who struggle to memorize language, the choice amoung various interventions may matter less than the intensity and format of the intervention, a new study sponsored by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) suggests. The study, led by Ronald B. Gilla…
Determining How The Brain Selectively Interprets Sound
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have reported new findings about how the mammalian brain interprets and fashions representations of sound that may help explain how we are able to focus on one specific sound among many in noisy environments such as offices or cocktail parties.Neuro…
Surprisingly Few Auditory Neurons May Be Involved In Zeroing-in On A specific Sound
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have reported new findings about how the mammalian brain interprets and fashions representations of sound that may help explain how we are able to focus on one specific sound among many in noisy environments such as offices or cocktail parties. Ne…
Sparse Representation Of Sounds In The Unanesthetized Auditory Cortex
How do neuronal populations in the auditory cortex represent sounds? Although sound-evoked neural responses in the anesthetized auditory cortex are mainly transient, recent experiments in the unanesthetized preparation have emphasized subpopulations with other response properties.Original post b…
When Mysterious Protein Deleted In Mice Deafness And Seizures Result
Scientists have discovered that mice genetically engineered to lack a specific protein in the brain have profound deafness and seizures. The finding suggests a pathway, they say, for exploring the hereditary causes of deafness and epilepsy in humans.More broadly, the discovery provides an entry poin…
NAD Leadership Training Conference Geared To Up-And-Coming Leaders
The National organization of the Deaf (NAD) will host its first annual training conference specifically geared to young up-and-coming deaf leaders. The NAD Leadership Training Conference (NLTC ‘08), will be held April 3-5, 2008 in Austin, Texas, with the theme of Moving Forward Through Proactive Lea…













