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Photo credit: Kampus Production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Daily reported on a new method for mapping the auditory pathway developed by researchers in China. I lack the scientific background to understand “a neuroimaging technique...
Photo credit: Rajesh Balouria by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers are familiar with posts that address the impact of human-made sounds on the health and...
Photo credit: RF._.studio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over forty years ago, I conducted two studies on the impact of noise on children’s learning. In the first...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m a big fan of NPR. I usually listen to "All Things Considered" and a few other programs if I’m in the car and I think these programs are among the best on the radio. But in this new...
Photo credit: Rodolfo Quirós by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A press release from the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus reports on assistant professor Nathaniel Greene's research on noise-induced hearing loss. As the article points out,...
Photo credit: Vidal Balielo Jr. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this post is also the title of an article on the Association of American Medical College's website by a medical student at University of California Los Angeles and a surgical...
Photo credit: Omar Ramadan by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of the Quiet Coalition blog know that Quiet Communities has followed the introduction of noise...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In the United States, hearing loss is very common after age 71. This is generally a well-known fact, but not to the level of detail reported by audiologist Nicholas Reed and colleagues at Johns...
Photo credit: SHVETS production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Tinnitus is commonly known as ringing in the ears, but the technical definition is the perception of sound without an external sound stimulus. One of the things that has powered my noise...