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Coping
 
In 1968, when I was 45, the hearing in my right ear went down the tube. It happened very suddenly-over a couple of days. Five years later, the hearing in my left ear went in the same direction but not to zero. It happened over a longer period time but in much the same fashion-fluctuations in my loss of hearing ending in a nearly total loss of hearing. At the time, I was a professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and teaching elementary economics with an enrollment of 1,000 students per semester. In 1975, I shifted to an honors class in economics with an enrollment of 66, which I continued to teach until I retired in 1985, but neither the change in teaching nor my retirement was associated, in any way, with the hearing loss.
 
 
 
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FROM THE LAB
 
University of Iowa
 
Keith Bryan, Ph.D., University of Iowa, has a long term goal of understanding at the molecular level how hair cells function normally in sound detection and develop novel therapeutic strategies for treating patients with inherited forms of hearing loss. Read more about his research.
 
 
 
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