Research

Studying a Genetic Cause of Hyperacusis Using Foxg1 Variant Mice

This study shows that a single variant in the Foxg1 gene can affect how the brain processes sounds and lead to a heightened sensitivity to noise.

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What Birds Teach Us About Restoring Hearing 

Research has not yet fully explained the mechanisms behind efficient hair cell regeneration in birds, but recent discoveries have sparked multiple promising research directions that might bring us closer to developing treatments for humans. 

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Why Men Don’t Listen in the Same Way as Women

A recent study has confirmed what we always knew: Men don’t listen in the same way women do—but not for the reasons many of us think.

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Why Do People With the Same Hearing Hear So Differently in Noise?

Two people have the same audiogram results but one can follow conversations at a loud party, while the other feels completely lost and overwhelmed. We set out to examine why.

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Zebrafish Gene Discovery Reveals Clues for Hearing Restoration

New research has identified how two distinct genes guide the regeneration of sensory cells in zebrafish. The discovery improves our understanding of how regeneration works in zebrafish and may guide future studies on hearing loss and regenerative medicine in mammals, including humans.

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How Our Brainstem Shapes Hearing Aid Success With Noise Reduction

The strength of pitch encoding under noise reduction was linked to how accurately people recognized words in noise. This suggests that measuring NR effects on subcortical speech encoding is doable, and could offer a novel way to predict who will benefit from NR in hearing aids.

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Personalized Cochlear Implant Care Grounded in Music-Based Benchmarks

Our review published in Brain Sciences in May 2025 proposes a shift in how we may evaluate and provide care to CI users: by adjusting our current speech-focused performance metrics to incorporate music perception, and by integrating personalized medicine into CI.

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What Is the Cingulo-Opercular Network?

Effortful listening is mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausting. Learn how it affects the brain—and what to do about it.

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Virus-Delivered Therapy Reduces Sound Damage in the Mouse Ear

Our data showed that introducing the mutated nicotinic receptor into otherwise healthy ears can prevent, to some extent, permanent auditory damage caused by loud noise and accelerate hearing recovery.

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Antibiotics Damage Hearing Through Different Mechanisms

Understanding the multiple mechanisms behind how aminoglycoside antibiotics are able to kill hair cells may provide new potential therapeutic avenues to make these important drugs safer. 

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