The brain can reorganize itself in the face of a traumatic injury or a sensory disability. For example, in deaf mammals, the auditory processing neurons of the brain may be rewired to handle other ...

Studies on misophonia have compared the newly termed disorder to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, synesthesia, anger management problems, disorders related to impulse control, and ...

Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how it interferes with reading comprehension has not been ...

Dani Tomlin receives funding from the HEARing CRC. Have you ever struggled to follow a conversation at a party? If listening and piecing together the conversation is a consistent problem, you might be ...

In A Nutshell Brain scans of 110 adults show that in people with age-related hearing loss, certain brain regions can’t maintain adequate activity levels as tissue shrinks A memory-related region ...

Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...

Central Auditory Processing (CAP) can be best described as “How the brain interprets auditory input from the ears” (Bellis, T.J. 2001). The brain’s role is to accurately process the information ...

Older adults lose their ability to hear concrete sounds first, and with this loss come the more difficult aspects of hearing: the fuzzy edges of speech. As your hearing deteriorates, you are likely to ...

Athletes are often praised for overcoming physical maladies. But what if what's wrong isn't physical? And what if not even the player's coaches or teammates are aware that something's wrong? When Alex ...