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Contributed by Marlaina Cockcroft, staff writer, Healthy HearingOctober 10, 2018 Does hearing loss cause cognitive impairment and dementia? And can you prevent or delay cognitive loss with hearing aids? These are tough questions to answer. The link between hearing loss and cognitive decline is still a puzzle for researchers. Multiple studies have tackled the issue. One meta-analysis from February analyzed 11 studies dating back to 2016 to find that older people with moderate to severe hearing impairment had a 29 to 57 percent greater risk of cognitive impairment than those with normal hearing. It did not find that wearing hearing aids reduced the risk. A 2016 study analyzing health insurance claims of 154,783 seniors concluded that hearing impairment increases the risk...
Contributed by Marlaina Cockcroft, staff writer, Healthy HearingAugust 29, 2018 Using light to target hearing issues may sound farfetched, but it’s not. Scientists say the new field of optogenetics could create cochlear implants that give people more natural hearing abilities. A new field called "optogenetics" studies how light-sensitive proteins can be used to improve cochlear implant technology. These cochlear implants skip past malfunctioning hair cells in the cochlea, the organ in the inner ear that translates sound, and connect with nearby auditory nerve cells to get signals to the brain. But it’s difficult to target the right nerve cells, which is why sound through these implants is frequently distorted. Optogenetics, which uses light-sensitive proteins to control living cells, could address that problem...
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