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 ...

Hearing loss is the reduced ability to hear sounds compared to someone with normal hearing. Sensorineural hearing loss is the result of damage to the inner ear nerves. Conductive hearing loss is the ...

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