Archive for the ‘Hearing / Deafness’ Category
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
HearUSA (AMEX:EAR), one of the nation's largest hearing health care organizations, is making a new home in Charlotte. HearUSA now operates five centers in the area, thanks to the acquisition and consolidation of Charlotte Audiology, Metrolina Hearing Aids and Hearing Aids Today hearing care centers.
HearUSA is thrilled to bring its ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
While the visual regions of the brain have been intensively mapped, many important regions for auditory processing remain terra incognita. Now, researchers have identified the region responsible for a key auditory process -- perceiving "sound space," the location of sounds. The findings settle a controversy in earlier studies that failed ...
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Student musicians who protect their hearing may still hear the beat of the drum after graduation, says a Purdue University audiologist.
"A number of famous musicians, old and young, are living with hearing loss," says Lata Krishnan, a clinical associate professor of audiology and a band parent. "One study found that ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
May is Speech and Hearing Awareness Month. Many of us take our hearing and ability to speak for granted. Whether we are chatting with a group of friends, playing on the basketball court or listening to the radio, our ability to communicate is vital in our everyday activities. For 1 ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
The Chicago Medical School (CMS) of the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) today announced that Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Athanasios Tzounopoulos, has uncovered novel forms of synaptic plasticity that occur at the very first step in the processing of sound in the central nervous ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
The Chicago Medical School (CMS) of the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) today announced that Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Athanasios Tzounopoulos, has uncovered novel forms of synaptic plasticity that occur at the very first step in the processing ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed a complaint with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) against Behavioral Directions, LLC, a Virginia company. Behavioral Directions provides behavioral counseling and psychological services to individuals with autism spectrum disorders, challenging behavior and related developmental disabilities. The complaint claims that Behavioral ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed two complaints with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) against Chase Bank, the consumer and commercial banking section of JPMorgan Chase & Co. The complaints allege that Chase Bank refused to accept telephone calls from deaf individuals using relay services in violation ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Experience hearing a person's voice allows us to more easily hear what they are saying. Now research by UC Riverside psychology Professor Lawrence D. Rosenblum and graduate students Rachel M. Miller and Kauyumari Sanchez has shown that experience seeing a person's face also makes it easier to hear them.
Rosenblum's paper, ...
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