Photo credit: Edoardo Tommasini by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website reported on research suggesting that tapping one’s fingers in a steady rhythm could help one better understand speech in a noisy environment. In the respected...
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Our genes may reveal more about speech-in-noise difficulty
Photo credit: Osvaldo Coelho Jr. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The scientific journal Nature recently published a genome-wide association study (GWAS) based on the UK Biobank, showing a polygenic architecture of speech-in-noise deficits in individuals...
Dementia risk linked to speech-in-noise difficulty
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website recently reported on research published in 2021 the shows a correlation between speech-in-noise difficulty and risk for developing dementia. Speech-in-noise...
The neurological secrets behind hearing in noisy surroundings
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Scitech Daily reported on what it calls the "neurological secrets" behind hearing in noisy surroundings. It’s difficult for many mid-life and older people to follow one conversation among many in...
Auditory cortex stimulation improves speech perception over background noise
Photo credit: Bradley P. Ander, et al. licensed under CC BY 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on Medical Net discusses an unexpected finding: stimulation of the auditory cortex helped an epilepsy patient understand speech in a simulated...
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...
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.