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A well informed and well educated patient, is always a happier and more confident patient. We feel that it is our duty to the community, and to our patients, to keep you up-to-date on all of the advancements being made and news regarding your hearing. Come back and visit daily, as we post a new blog article each and every day!
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Back to Basics: “The Final Element”. By Marshall Chasin, AuD
19 October , 2015
The Final Element may sound like the title of a movie starring Bruce Willis (or was that The Fifth Element?), but this is all about that one last piece of the puzzle to optimize a hearing aid for music. The last several years have seen a remarkable ...
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Scientists Create First Gene Expression Map of Inner Ear
16 October , 2015
Scientists at the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have created the first high-resolution gene expression map of the newborn mouse inner ear using a sensitive new technology called single-cell RNA-seq. Accor...
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Study Finds Auditory Speech Perception, Requires Tongue Movement
15 October , 2015
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found that babies need free tongue movement to decipher speech sounds, and the study is the first to discover a direct link between infants’ oral-motor movements and auditory speech perception...
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Study Finds Cancer Drug Improves Sound Processing, Sharpens Memory
14 October , 2015
According to a Rutgers University research article published in the Journal of Neuroscience, a cancer drug (RGFP966) helped rats in an animal study become more attuned to what they were hearing and better abl...
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