Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...

You might be losing your hearing, even if your test results come back normal. It's called hidden hearing loss - and there are ways to prevent it. "So hidden hearing loss can occur due to noise ...

Childhood hearing level varies considerably within the range considered normal. Four classes of outcome were investigated for associations with hearing thresholds in this range: ability to identify ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, No. 37 (September 13, 2011), pp. 15516-15521 (6 pages) "Normal hearing" is typically defined by threshold ...

A recent Scientific Reports study assessed whether cochlear neural degeneration occurs in normal-hearing individuals with tinnitus. Study: Evidence of cochlear neural degeneration in normal-hearing ...

Gene therapy made its first breakthroughs slowing vision loss from inherited eye disorders. Eli Lilly is making the ear this therapeutic modality’s next proving ground, and the pharmaceutical giant ...

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