Tinnitus and hearing loss increase the risk for injuries at work
Workers with tinnitus and hearing loss have a 25% greater risk to be injured at work, study finds
Alejandra Galindo
Characterising neural signatures of successful aging: Electrophysiological correlates of preserved episodic memory in older age
Paul M. Dockree, , Sabina Brennan, Michael O’Sullivan, Ian H. Robertson, Redmond G. O’Connell
Brain and Cognition
Volume 97, July 2015, Pages 40–50
Cochlear supporting cell transdifferentiation and integration into hair cell layers by inhibition of ephrin-B2 signalling
Jean Defourny, Susana Mateo Sánchez, Lies Schoonaert, Wim Robberecht, Alice Davy, Laurent Nguyen & Brigitte Malgrange
Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7017 doi:10.1038/ncomms8017
Hearing impaired people are less socially active
Hearing impaired older people’s difficulty in interacting can reduce participation in social situations, Finnish studies show
Better use of cochlear implants with gene therapy
Beam gene therapy may increase the power of the cochlear implants, thereby improving the hearing of the user, a study suggests
Tinnitus mapped inside human brain
For the first time, signals relating to the constant ringing noise of tinnitus have been mapped across the brain of a patient undergoing surgery
A new genetic test for hearing loss
Maria Bitner-Glindzicz runs the UK Genetic Deafness Clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She has led the development of a new test which aims to improve the identification of the genetic cause of a person’s hearing loss