A 68-year-old man named "CP" would drop everything, run outside, and weep with joy whenever a Spitfire flew over his house. He'd never cared about planes before. It wasn't nostalgia. It was a rare, barely-classified form of dementia unrecognized ...

Navigating the world without sight requires a finely tuned auditory map of your environment. Sound is a lifeline, a way of understanding spatial relationships and potential hazards. But a groundbreaking Johns Hopkins study has uncovered a critical ...

Chances are, you know about vitamins and minerals, but choline? It's probably not on your radar. This essential nutrient is critical in brain health, memory function, and early childhood development. The surprising truth is that most people aren't ...

Your earbuds are damaging your hearing right now. You just can't feel it yet. And when you finally do, there's nothing medicine can do to reverse it.

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Hearing loss from using earbuds is permanent. There's no reversal, ...

Scientists have cracked part of the code on how we recognize words so quickly. New research shows your brain has a clear preference for certain types of similar-looking words when you read.

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Your brain processes words ...

Minnesota ran a groundbreaking experiment on newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV), a viral infection that can cause hearing loss in infants. A new study confirms advocates’ long-held belief: the most at-risk children were not those ...

A new study in Science found that monkeys can keep a beat to human music. This might sound small, but it's a big deal for scientists. For years, researchers thought only certain animals could naturally sync up to a rhythm. Now, we're learning that ...

Your headphones, workplace, and weekend concerts might be causing permanent damage you can't see coming. New research reveals that noise-induced hearing loss affects millions worldwide and creates problems beyond hearing loss.

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Over 1.5 billion people can't hear properly. You might think hearing loss only happens with age, but childhood infections cause more hearing problems than most realize.

Researchers at the University of Montreal, with colleagues at the University ...