Hearing loss affects over 360 million people around the world–a population larger than that of the United States. Yet the genetic factors contributing to hearing disorders – or even healthy auditory ...

Detecting hearing defects in newborns Date: July 7, 2011 Source: Deutsches Aerzteblatt International Summary: Hearing has a key role in the acquisition of speech, but 2 of every 1000 children are ...

Hearing loss, sometimes associated with other disorders such as balance defects, is the most common sensory deficit, affecting more than 280 million people worldwide, according to WHO. In France ...

Scripps Research Institute. (2009, May 14). Molecular Defect Involved In Hearing Loss Discovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 24, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 05 ...

A doctor finds Nazi eugenics is the source of a belief that women with an inner ear defect will lose their hearing if they have a baby. Pregnancy, Deafness Link Is Discounted - Los Angeles Times ...

In addition to dogs, the preliminary findings open new avenues for investigating human hereditary hearing defects." Source: University of Helsinki. Journal reference: Hytönen, M. K., et al.

Date range: 1 February 2023 - 31 January 2024 Research collaboration: Laboratory of Genetics and Physiology of Hearing is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its ...

However, I think it's important to note that children who have other sensory defects such as vision disturbances, blindness or hearing defects often have features that are autistic-like features ...

Finnish researchers have been the first to determine the cause for the nonsyndromic early-onset hereditary canine hearing loss in Rottweilers. The gene defect was identified in a gene relevant to the ...

Scientists have managed to train rats with hearing defects to pick out sounds from background noise, giving a possible solution to hearing-impaired children with difficulties in learning language.