As they age, some people find it harder to understand speech in noisy environments. Now, UB researchers have identified the area in the brain, called the insula, that shows significant changes in ...

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Frequency Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FREQ), a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company focused on developing therapeutics to activate a person’s innate ...

Difficulty distinguishing spoken words from background noise, called speech-in-noise hearing impairment, was associated with increased risk for Parkinson's disease (PD), with a 57% elevation in risk ...

Researchers have, for the first time, linked symptoms of difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments with evidence of cochlear synaptopathy, a condition known as 'hidden hearing loss,' in ...

The Apple Research app has received an update today that brings two notable changes with one of them being focused on taking into account how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting daily life for those in ...

Making music is good for your brain. There was already plenty of evidence for the effect of music on memory, but now a new study found another way in which musicians are at an advantage. They showed ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University's M.D. Steer Audiology and Speech-Language clinics are offering free screenings on May 28 as part of Better Hearing and Speech Month. "One of the goals of ...

Chicago (May 10, 2013): Ambient background noise—whether it is the sound of loud surgical equipment, talkative team members, or music—is a patient and surgical safety factor that can affect auditory ...