Photo credit: Maurício Mascaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Neuroscience News reported on research published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology that looked into how the brain treats speech in a crowded room, depending on how easy that...
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An interview with Dr. Charles Liberman
Photo credit: Ecm85 licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Hearing Review’s Kathryn Sutherland interviewed last year’s winner of the French La Foundation Pour l’Audition Scientific Grand Prize, Dr. M. Charles Liberman. Dr....
Mouse study may help explain speech in noise difficulty
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times Ask Well column recently covered hidden hearing loss, with the title, “Can’t hear conversations in a crowd? It could be hidden hearing loss.” An accessible if slightly more...
More than 1 billion young people at risk of hearing loss
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new study confirms what the World Health Organization has been saying for some years now: more than 1 billion young people could be at risk of noise-induced hearing loss because of...
Difficulty hearing in a noisy space linked to dementia
Photo credit: Helena Lopes by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies There has been more focus on the importance of hearing lately as evidenced by how much easier it is to get...
Boston researchers awarded $12.5M NIH grant for hidden hearing loss research
Photo credit: Sepehr Ehsani licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This press release from Boston’s Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary reports on the award of a large NIH grant to Sharon Kujawa, PhD, Charles Liberman, PhD, and...
3 ear pathologies cause difficulty understanding speech in a noisy environment
Photo credit: Maurício Mascaro from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The “speech in noise” or “hearing in noise” problem is one that has long bedeviled both middle-aged people and their audiologists and physicians. Many people in mid-to-late life...
On hidden hearing loss
Dr. Daniel Fink points us to an article on hidden hearing loss that he says is a good primer about the condition, which makes it impossible for people to understand speech in noisy environments.
AARP on hidden hearing loss
The AARP looks at hidden hearing loss, a disorder in which people can’t understand speech in noisy spaces but can pass a normal hearing exam.