News tagged with deaf
Rebooting the brain helps stop the ring of tinnitus in rats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers were able to eliminate tinnitus in a group of rats by stimulating a nerve in the neck while simultaneously playing a variety of sound tones over an extended period of time, says a study published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 12, 2011 |
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New test can screen all deafness genes simultaneously
Pinpointing the exact genetic cause of inherited deafness has always involved sequencing one gene at a time, a process that can take up to a year and cost roughly $1,000 per gene. It would cost around $75,000 to test all ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Research reveals deaf adults see better than hearing people
Adults born deaf react more quickly to objects at the edge of their visual field than hearing people, according to groundbreaking new research by the University of Sheffield.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Research discovers how the deaf have super vision
Deaf or blind people often report enhanced abilities in their remaining senses, but up until now, no one has explained how and why that could be. Researchers at The University of Western Ontario, led by Stephen Lomber of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 10, 2010 |
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Healthy ears hear the first sound, ignoring the echoes
Voices carry, reflect off objects and create echoes. Most people rarely hear the echoes; instead they only process the first sound received. For the hard of hearing, though, being in an acoustically challenging ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Structure of inner-ear protein is key to both hearing and inherited deafness (w/ Video)
Rising from the top surface of each of the specialized receptor cells in our inner ears is a bundle of sensory cilia that responds to the movement of sound. As sensitive as they are fragile, these cilia can move to wisps ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 17, 2010 |
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Researchers create cell phones for sign language
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Neural pathway missing in tone-deaf people
Nerve fibers that link perception and motor regions of the brain are disconnected in tone-deaf people, according to new research in the August 19 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Experts estimate that at least 10 per ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Expressing comparisons is possible even without language, researchers find
(PhysOrg.com) -- Making comparisons between objects, like comparing a tiger to a cat, is elemental in the development of a child’s ability to grasp the concept of categories.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Scaling the wall of deafness
Despite modern medicine, one in 1,000 American babies are born deaf. The numbers increase markedly with age, with more than 50% of seniors in the United States experiencing some form of hearing loss.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Deaf children use hands to invent own way of communicating
Deaf children are able to develop a language-like gesture system by making up hand signs and using homemade systems to increase their communication as they grow, just as children with conventional spoken language, research ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Scissors, paste, sign language: Study to show deaf children's enculturation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Learning to be a member of a culture is a primary developmental task for all young children. For most, it happens at home. But for deaf children around the world – more than 90 percent ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 05, 2011 |
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New genetic deafness syndrome identified
Ten years ago, scientists seeking to understand how a certain type of feature on a cell called an L-type calcium channel worked created a knockout mouse missing both copies of the CACNA1D gene.
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Technology rarely realizes its potential to help disabled
Living in Silicon Valley, it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of technological change. Unfortunately, it's also easy to overlook those who may be left behind.
Feb 18, 2011 |
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It's all in the hands: Signing simplified
From video games to cell phone apps, making sign language easier to learn.
Sep 27, 2010 |
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