News tagged with auditory nerves
Pair of Bionic Ears Helps to Distinguish Left from Right
May 15, 2009 |
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Can a pair of bionic ears benefit a hearing-impaired child? Cynthia Zettler, a postdoctoral fellow in Ruth Litovsky's laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks so.
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Cell transplants may cure deafness
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from stem cells and human tissue ...
Human auditory neurons more sensitive than those of other mammals
Jan 16, 2008 |
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The human ear is exquisitely tuned to discern different sound frequencies, whether such tones are high or low, near or far. But the ability of our ears pales in comparison to the remarkable knack of single neurons in our ...
Iron deficiency in womb may delay brain maturation in preemies
May 04, 2009 |
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Iron plays a large role in brain development in the womb, and new University of Rochester Medical Center research shows an iron deficiency may delay the development of auditory nervous system in preemies. This delay could ...
How young mice phone home: Study gives clue to how mothers' brains screen for baby calls
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Emory University researchers have identified a surprising mechanism in the brains of mother mice that focuses their awareness on the calls of baby mice. Their study, published June 11 in Neuron, found that t ...
Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2009 |
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It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...
Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment
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Apr 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people.
Age-related difficulty recognizing words predicted by brain differences
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May 12, 2009 |
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Older adults may have difficulty understanding speech because of age-related changes in brain tissue, according to new research in the May 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that older adults with t ...
Ears ringing? Scientists ID the brain's own clarion
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Brain scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered how cells in the developing ear make their own noise, long before the ear is able to detect sound around them. The finding, reported in this week’s Nature, helps to explai ...
Glial cells can cross from the central to the peripheral nervous system (w/ Video)
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new research in the Dec. 2 issue ...
Researchers studying hearing loss find auditory regions of the brain convert to the sense of touch
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain.
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