News on Hearing Research

Your inner ear rootlet is more critical to healthy hearing than anyone would have first guessed.

The House Ear Institute (HEI) announced the appointment of Neil Segil, Ph.D., as Executive Vice President of Research and a new division that will increase collaborative research between HEI researchers and House Clinic physicians.

New research has found a way to create the first functional inner ear hair cells in a petri dish. If they can further perfect the recipe to generate hair cells in the millions, it could lead to significant scientific and clinical advances along the path to curing deafness in the future.

Tai Chi is now shown promise in addressing the symptoms associated with vestibular disorder. According to a recently released study, this gentle, slow-moving art not only helps tone muscles and keep joints supple, it also helps in maintaining your balance longer.

New research has discovered findings that help explain some classes of inherited deafness. These findings, the researchers believe, offer insight that may one day better inform efforts to develop treatments for inherited deafness.

New research has discovered a new gene linked to inherited deafness, which could mean that more families will be able to identify the cause of their hearing loss.

The phrase “perk up your ears” made more sense last year after scientists discovered how the quietest sounds are amplified in the cochlea before being transmitted to the brain.

University of Northern Colorado Professor Deanna Meinke, AuD., has received the "Michael Beall Threadgill" Award from the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA). Her work has implications for the workers and employers of America who contend with hazardous noise on a daily basis.

A team of University of Oregon researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain's auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times. The new finding could lead to new, distinctly targeted therapies such as improved hearing aids.

Feb. 9, 2010 - Deafness is the most common disorder of the senses. Tragically, it commonly strikes in early childhood, severely damaging an affected abi...

Today, those who experience severe conductive and mixed hearing loss have new treatment option. In August, 2009, hearing aid manufacturer, Oticon, received FDA approval to begin...

February 12, 2009 - As the BHI publishes research from the MarkeTrak VIII survey, we will be providing factoids or summaries via this eNewsletter. A PDF...

Researchers Share Knowledge at Conferences in Colombia, Scotland and Sweden Minneapolis, Feb. 16, 2010 ? The

By Duke Medicine News and Communications Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified neurons in the songbird brain that convey the auditory...

January 12, 2010 - Loss of spiral ganglion neurons or hair cells in the inner ear is the leading cause of congenital and acquired hearing impairment....

Bats don't see very well. But they eat a bunch of mosquitoes by employing a form of sonar ? echolocation ? to snatch skeeters right out of the sky ? in...

A recent study from the University of Utah, co-authored by the Chair of the Bioengineering Department, Dr. Richard Rabbitt, has demonstrated that the human ear actually has tiny,...

14 December 2009 - A new study into hearing has uncovered the secret of our extraordinary ability to perceive a range of sounds - from a pin dropping to the...

A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller...

A gene associated with a rare form of progressive deafness in males has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and...

Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research. It is well known that humans...

Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Ph.D., chief of the biology of aging division at UF's College of Medicine and a member of the Institute on Aging and Jinze Xu, Ph.D., a postdoctoral...

Squeak, Squeak ? Can You Hear Me Now? Illustration by Mitch...

ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2009) - Long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more severe side effects,...

Cleveland, Oct. 29 - While the public has made accommodations for 54.4 million people with disabilities, many researchers regularly exclude people who cannot...