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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My 78-year-old husband has a problem that is becoming my problem. He is hard of hearing and will not consider hearing aids. I am tired of shouting and becoming increasingly annoyed. Do you have any ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Traditional clinical hearing tests often fail to diagnose patients with a common form of inner ear damage that might otherwise be detected by more challenging behavioral tests, ...

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 ...