Hearing Blog

If you’ve recently noticed a change in your hearing you may have some serious questions on your mind. For starters, you may be wondering if the difference you notice is serious enough to warrant a hearing exam. You may be worried you are detecting the first signs of hearing loss, but also may question how indicative a small hearing change could be.  Or it may be the case that you recently saw your hearing specialist...

For the past few decades research has pointed to a clear link between untreated hearing loss and the development of dementia. While unaddressed hearing issues can have a detrimental effect on cognitive performance, less study has been the efficacy of using hearing aids to alleviate cognitive load and decrease dementia risk. Recently, a study of more than 2000 subjects with hearing loss and mild cognitive impairment looked at whether hearing aid use can actually reduce...

Today’s hearing aids are so small and discreet they often go completely unnoticed by the casual observer. Despite their small size, hearing aids are also delivering clearer, more nuanced sound processing than ever before. Such tiny yet powerful devices are a triumph in microcomputers and they are continuing to improve their technology.  But how did hearing aids become so small and strong? The answer may surprise you: hearing aids have long been a leading technology...

We commonly think of sleep as a time where the brain and body shut down and does not receive or process information from the external environment. But the brain is actually more active during sleep than we think. Throughout the duration of sleep, we move through several sleep cycles which include different stages and in some of these stages, the brain is more active and is able to hear and process sound – even though...