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What a Formula 1 Race Does to Your EardrumsCraig Dolder, an acoustical engineer, always wanted to go to a Formula 1 Grand Prix but knew he needed to protect himself from the deafening roar of the engines. The advice he found online varied and the technical papers he read provided assessments of sound levels for NASCAR and other races, but he could find nothing that measured the noise levels or dosage specifically for Formula 1. So he decided to conduct his own test. |
Embargo expired: 12/4/2013 1:00 PM EST
Released: 12/2/2013 10:00 AM EST
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
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Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Researchers Turn Current Sound-localization Theories ‘On Their Ear’
A recent paper by Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School researchers in collaboration with researchers at the Ecole Normale Superieure, France, challenge the two dominant theories of how people localize sounds, explain why neuronal responses to sounds are so diverse and show how sound can be localized, even with the absence of one half of the brain. Their research is described on line in the journal eLife. |
Released: 12/3/2013 8:20 AM EST
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary |
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Initial Success for New Tinnitus TreatmentScientists paired vagus nerve stimulation with playing tones to decrease the symptoms of tinnitus, a debilitating disorder of ringing in the ears affecting many U.S. veterans and seniors. VNS-tone therapy significantly reduced symptoms in 4/10 patients with effects lasting for more than two months. |
Released: 11/21/2013 12:00 AM EST
University of Texas, Dallas |
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Study Reveals Potential Breakthrough in Hearing TechnologyComputer engineers and hearing scientists at The Ohio State University have made a potential breakthrough in solving a 50-year-old problem in hearing technology: how to help the hearing-impaired understand speech in the midst of background noise. |
Released: 11/18/2013 8:00 AM EST
Ohio State University |
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Short-term Hearing Loss During Childhood Can Cause "Lazy Ear"Short-term hearing loss during childhood may lead to persistent hearing deficits, long after basic auditory sensitivity has returned to normal. Mass. Eye and Ear researchers gain new insight into how this works. |
Released: 9/30/2013 10:00 AM EDT
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary |
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Inner-Ear Disorders May Cause HyperactivityBehavioral abnormalities are traditionally thought to originate in the brain. But a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found that inner-ear dysfunction can directly cause neurological changes that increase hyperactivity. |
Embargo expired: 9/5/2013 2:05 PM EDT
Released: 9/4/2013 10:30 AM EDT
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University |
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Telemedicine Initiative Allows Remote Hearing Tests for Newborns
A telemedicine initiative in Vanderbilt’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is working to make follow-up hearing tests for newborns more accessible in rural areas of Tennessee, while teaching young pediatric audiology and pediatric speech language pathology students to treat patients remotely. |
Released: 9/5/2013 9:00 AM EDT
Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
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Look at What I’m Saying
University of Utah bioengineers discovered our understanding of language may depend more heavily on vision than previously thought: under the right conditions, what you see can override what you hear. |
Embargo expired: 9/4/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 8/30/2013 1:00 PM EDT
University of Utah |
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Study Shows that People Who Undergo Cataract Surgery to Correct Visual Impairment Live LongerPeople with cataract-related vision loss who have had cataract surgery to improve their sight are living longer than those with visual impairment who chose not to have the procedure, according to an Australian cohort study published this month in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. After comparing the two groups, the researchers found a 40 percent lower long-term mortality risk in those who had the surgery. |
Released: 9/4/2013 9:00 AM EDT
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) |
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A Fly's Hearing
University of Iowa researchers say that the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is an ideal model to study hearing loss in humans caused by loud noise. The reason: The molecular underpinnings to its hearing are roughly the same as with people. |
Embargo expired: 9/2/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Released: 8/30/2013 3:40 PM EDT
University of Iowa |