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Last month, Sennheiser announced the launch of Conversation Clear Plus, a new device that blends Sonova's speech enhancement and scene detection technologies with Sennheiser's true wireless earbud features like tap control, Bluetooth streaming, active noise cancellation, and hands-free calling. HearingTracker Audiologist Matthew Allsop provides you with an overview of this new device that isn't yet classified as an OTC hearing aid.
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Previous research has shown hearing impairment impacts performance on cognitive screening tests, resulting in over-estimation of cognitive impairment. Piers Dawes and an international team of researchers report on the first fully validated, sensitive, and reliable cognitive screening test for people with hearing impairment, the MoCA‐H.
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By carefully fine-tuning cell culture conditions, researchers in China have succeeded in growing stem cells—complete with hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons—isolated from mouse cochleae.
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Gus Mueller, PhD, interviews Patrick Plyler, PhD, who summarizes current research on the evaluation of hearing aid technology levels and provides clinical implications for selecting and verifying hearing aids.
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'U.S. News & World Report' ranked Hearing Aid Specialist as a best job for 2023, also placing it at #8 for "Highest Paying Jobs without a Degree" and #82 overall in its "100 Best Jobs" list.
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- Webinar Tomorrow (Feb 2): Music and Hearing Aids, with Marshall Chasin, AuD | Unitron unitron․cventevents․com
- Hearing noise and moving our body helps us gauge the passing of time | Gated content newscientist․com
- GN, Sivantos, Sonova lose VA hearing aid market shares in December; Demant and Starkey gain | Paywall medwatch․com
- High risk of hearing loss in newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus infection and seroconversion in first trimester: JAMA medicaldialogues․in
- FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) 2022 Annual Report fda․gov
- Hearing Better in Noise: How ReSound Neuromorphic Technology Uses the Natural Power of the Brain audiologyonline․com
- Learn How Cochlear Commits to Improved Hearing Health for all Through Hearing Health Literacy and Standard of Care Guidelines audiologyonline․com
- Making the Cost Conversation Easier audiologyonline․com
- Setting new guidelines for innovative services to prevent Alzheimer’s disease news-medical․net
- Mini creatures with mighty voices know their audience and focus on a single frequency phys․org
Audio/Video
- This Week in Hearing: Healthy Hearing, Healthy Aging and the 5M's of Geriatric Care with VA Audiologist Steve Huart, AuD hearinghealthmatters․org
- Dr. Rachael Cook Short Video: Which battery to use? youtube․com
Research
- The future of sensory substitution, addition, and expansion via haptic devices frontiersin․org
- Influence of Auditory Information on Postural Control During Different Gait Tasks in the Elderly pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- The role of consciously timed movements in shaping and improving auditory timing royalsocietypublishing․org
- Vestibular Schwannoma Presenting with Cough-Induced Vertigo pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Case Report: Eustachian Tube Dysfunction after Penetrating Facial Trauma academic․oup․com
- Dexamethasone Effect on Sudden Hearing Loss is Validated in Stress-induced Animal Models: Hypothetical Study pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Prevention of progressive hearing loss in a mouse model of diabetes by oral intake of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) ethyl ester tandfonline․com
- Graph-based sequential beamforming asa․scitation․org
- Perception and classification of emotions in nonsense speech: Humans versus machines dx․plos․org
- Perceptual warping exposes categorical representations for speech in human brainstem responses linkinghub․elsevier․com