Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent health complaints in adults over the age of 60 and a major factor in speech comprehension difficulties. The goal for researchers at the Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts was to examine the effects of hearing ability on the brain processes supporting spoken language processing in adult humans.

The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor activity in the brain while older adult subjects with normal-level hearing for their age listened to sentences that varied in the amount of linguistic comprehension needed to understand them...

Tinnitus, a relentless ringing in the ears that affects lovers of loud music, soldiers exposed to explosion noise and millions of others, is due to the under-inhibition of major neural pathways in the auditory center of the brain. According to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the connection between tinnitus and too little inhibition of brain auditory circuits was reported in this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Viagra may enhance some things, but it could also make you deaf. According to The Daily Telegraph, Viagra and similar impotence drugs have been linked to more than a few cases of sudden hearing loss.

How could the little blue diamond, keeping gentlemen in the game for over a decade, suddenly sideline them with hearing loss? Researchers in England examined instances of a condition called sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) in men taking Viagra and other erectile dysfunction (PDE-5 inhibitor) drugs.

Hearing loss isn’t just an old-folks problem anymore; it’s a big problem for all Americans, especially U.S. teenagers. According to a recent study, one in five teenagers in the U.S. have hearing loss...

Extremely loud iPod earbuds, jumbo jets, cruiser bike gangs and ear-related infections can constantly put our hearing under siege.  To avoid these problems, many audiologists and experts from day one, when you are born, you should be taking great care of your ears.

Oddly enough, besides lungs, it seems that smoke gets in your ears.  A large study by Zausmer Foundation and NYU indicated that teens exposed to secondhand smoke tend to experience an associated hearing loss.

As you have heard, legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, which, when passed, will allow Medicare eligible beneficiaries direct access to audiologists for hearing and balance evaluation and diagnosis. 

Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common type of hearing loss and most often caused by damage to the inner ear, for a variety of reasons. 

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