Photo credit: Dương Nhân by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I used to like listening to the Simon and Garfunkel song The Sound of Silence, and that’s a good title for this blog post about a study in the well-regarded scientific...
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Children need quiet environments to help early brain development
Photo credit: Yan Krukau by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This NPR article discusses new research showing that children need quiet to help their brains develop normally. Author LA Johnson quotes Nina Kraus, a neurobiologist at Northwestern...
Apple Hearing Study suggests many Americans are exposed to too much noise
Photo credit: picjumbo.com by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this story on the CNET website, the Apple Hearing Study suggests that many Americans are exposed to too much noise. The research uses recordings of sound pressure levels from...
Even slight traffic noise impacts work performance
Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earth.com reports that even slight traffic noise impacts work performance. That’s probably an overstatement — the study reported on by staff writer Andrei Ionesco did not actually...
Zebrafish may help unlock the genetics of human deafness
Photo credit: Oregon State University licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the current issue of Acoustics Today, a publication of the Acoustical Society of America, discusses how the zebrafish, a freshwater minnow...
More needed to protect seals, porpoises from underwater noise
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from Science Daily describes research done in Denmark and published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America about underwater noise regulations and how noise affects seals and...
Swedish researchers discover 3 types of nerve fibers in the ear
Researchers discover 3 types of nerve fibers in the ear. All research adds to knowledge, but Dr. Fink says the evidence is already strong enough to establish that noise causes hearing loss and other health effects.
Newly identified gene plays critical role in noise-induced hearing loss
Newly identified gene plays critical role in noise-induced hearing loss. Great news, but why wait for some future cure when prevention of hearing loss is so easy?
Finally, restaurateurs think about how noise affects taste
Does sound affect taste? Yes, and Betsy Andrews tells us about new research that is making restaurateurs think twice about restaurant noise.