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Better behavior after tonsil and adenoid surgery for kids with sleep breathing trouble?

U-M sleep experts help lead first multicenter clinical trial that builds on their previous work ...

CQUni seeks to reduce scourge of middle ear infection

Middle ear infection often hits young children just when they are entering their kindy and school years, leading to hearing difficulties in ...

Purdue innovation could help people with severe hearing loss

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Mel Chua, a Purdue University doctoral candidate in engineering education, received her current set of hearing aids in May 2012. She has severe hearing loss but has not worn hearing aids most of her adult life because they did not offer a significant improvement to her hearing. ... Full story

Short-term hearing loss protective, not damaging

Contrary to conventional wisdom, short-term hearing loss after sustained exposure to loud noise does not reflect damage to our hearing: instead, it is the body’s way to cope. ... Full story

New understanding of hearing loss

A major breakthrough in the understanding of hearing and noise-induced hearing loss has been made by hearing scientists from three Pacific Rim universities. ... Full story

Research in the News: Flies reveal that a sense of smell, like a melody, depends upon timing

By Bill Hathaway - The sense of smell remains a mystery in many respects. Fragrance companies, for instance, know it is crucial that chemical compounds in perfumes reach nostrils at different rates to create the desired sensory experience, but it is has been unclear why. Yale researchers decided to interrogate the common fruit fly for answers. ... Full story

Differential hearing difficulties cause kids to fall behind at school

Some children who have trouble learning in the classroom have difficulty switching their listening attention and so have trouble following a conversation from one talker to the next, according to a University of Sydney study published online in Nature Scientific Reports. ... Full story

Young adult hearing aid users wanted to help explore the link between hearing and speech

Advances in technology have greatly improved the effectiveness of hearing aids. Despite these improvements, listening to speech in noisy situations still proves difficult for those with a hearing loss – even with the help of a hearing aid. ... Full story

Hearing What's Important: Penn Researchers Pinpoint Brain Mechanisms That Make the Auditory System Sensitive to Behaviorally Relevant Sounds

PHILADELPHIA — How do we hear? More specifically, how does the auditory center of the brain discern important sounds – such as communication from members of the same species – from relatively irrelevant background noise? The answer depends on the regulation of sound by specific neurons in the auditory cortex of the brain, but the precise mechanisms of those neurons have remained unclear. Now, a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has isolated how neurons in the rat's primary auditory cortex (A1) preferentially respond to natural vocalizations from other rats over intentionally modified vocalizations (background sounds). ... Full story

Researchers Discover Primary Role of the Olivocochlear Efferent System

Light Shed on the Natural Mechanism that Protects Ears from Hearing Loss; Paper Published in March 27 Issue of the Journal of Neuroscience ... Full story

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