A patient’s age upon receiving a cochlear implant can influence the technology’s effectiveness.
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Researchers are exploring different ways to improve how cochlear implant users perceive speech and music in noisy environments.
You may need to pop your ears by yawning when you go up in a plane.
Listen up. Today we’re hearing all about why your ears pop when you go up, up, up and away.
Hearing can be affected by loud noises, but the mechanisms have not been fully understood. The auditory nerve plays a big role.
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Noise is common, but we don’t fully know what that means for our hearing. A recent study suggests how overstimulation of the auditory nerve may be too much for it to handle.