In their study, Blair and Saeed Abdullah, assistant professor of information sciences and technology, conducted in-depth interviews with deaf users of smart assistants and collected survey data from individuals with mild to profound hearing loss.
Webinar Recap: New Developments in Treating Hearing Loss and Related Conditions: Digital Therapeutics
This presented focused on rehabilitation, to show how digital therapeutics can help people with hearing loss improve word discrimination, familiarity with everyday words, listening confidence, and auditory cognitive skills, including auditory processing speed, auditory word memory, and auditory attention
Remote Tinnitus Counseling
We’ve developed several tools to help the tinnitus patient, who is typically an older adult. We first ask them to complete the Tinnitus Primary Functions Questionnaire. These are 20 questions that my team and I developed and validated to help detail patient experiences. The questions cover four categories: Thoughts and Emotions, Hearing, Sleep, and Concentration.
Hearing Speech Requires Quiet – In More Ways Than One
Perceiving speech requires quieting certain types of brain cells, report a team of researchers from UConn Health and University of Rochester in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Their research reveals a previously unknown population of brain cells, and opens up a new way of understanding how the brain hears.
Hearing Health Foundation Names Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Hearing Restoration Project
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF), the largest nonprofit funder of hearing and balance research in the U.S., announced today the appointment of Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School to the role of Scientific Director of the Hearing Restoration Project (HRP).
Meet the 2020 ERG Researchers
These seven early career scientists were chosen through a rigorous review by HHF’s Scientific Review Committee and Council of Scientific Trustees, comprising senior expert scientists and physicians from across the U.S. The researchers are investigating a range of hearing and balance areas and also, as demonstrated in our Meet the Researcher column, have diverse interests in their free time, which more often than not informs their work.
Chloroquine to Fight COVID-19: Mechanisms and Adverse Effects
The COVID-19 outbreak emerged in December 2019 and has rapidly become a global pandemic. A great deal of effort has been made to find effective drugs against this disease. Two structurally related quinoline drugs, chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), were widely adopted in treating COVID-19, but the results were contradictory.
Age-Related Hearing Loss and Brainwave Changes
Brain oscillations (brainwaves) are associated with specific cognitive and sensory processes. How age-related hearing loss (presbycusis) alters the oscillations is unclear. Age-related speech recognition problems can be caused by changes in neurotransmission (chemical messaging between nerve cells) and temporal processing (the perception of sound within a defined time frame).
Recap: Hearing Health Hour Webinar Kickoff
On October 26, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) hosted “Age-Related Hearing Loss: Problems and Solutions” on Zoom, the first installment of our new Hearing Health Hour webinar series. Hearing Health Hour webinars bring HHF supporters the latest developments in hearing and balance research through the voices of our Emerging Research Grants (ERG) alum community. All sessions include an interactive Q&A with the speaker.
2020-2021 Emerging Research Grants Recipients Announced
Starting with this 2020–2021 ERG cycle, HHF is increasing the available annual amount per project to $50,000 and will also make grants renewable for a second year. We look forward to learning about the advances these promising researchers will undoubtedly make in the coming year and beyond.