Hearing loss can be a sign of cognitive decline, and researchers are getting much closer to understanding what links these two processes so closely.

Researchers identify the Functional-Structural Ratio (FSR) as the biological link between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline, offering a potential new biomarker for dementia risk.

Hearing loss may worsen cognitive decline in older adults and increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Treatments like hearing aids and assistive listening devices can ...

A growing body of research has increasingly connected hearing loss with a higher risk for dementia. In addition, some studies suggest that wearing hearing aids may help prevent dementia, though one ...

Scientists are discovering that hearing loss isn’t just an inconvenience that makes conversations difficult – it’s actually accelerating brain aging and cognitive decline in ways that could triple the ...

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Hearing loss. It makes you imagine someone turning the volume up too high or constantly asking people to repeat themselves. Yet it’s actually connected to how the brain itself changes. Sadly, millions ...

The three types of hearing loss are sensorineural, conductive, and mixed hearing loss. They each involve different parts of the ear and may have varying causes and treatments. Hearing loss in one or ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery , the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) ...

Millennials are the “hearing loss generation” — you heard it here first. Some 1.1 billion young people are at risk of permanent hearing loss, the World Health Organization warns. One study suggested ...