Source: http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2016/10/31/could-you-repeat-that-study-links-hearing-loss-to-brain-aging/
It’s Not Your Ears, It’s Your Brain (UMD release):
“Could you repeat that?” The reason you may have to say something twice when talking to older family members at Thanksgiving dinner may not be because of their hearing. Researchers at the University of Maryland have determined that something is going on in the brains of typical older adults that causes them to struggle to follow speech amidst background noise, even when their hearing would be considered normal on a clinical assessment.
In an interdisciplinary study published by the Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers Samira Anderson, Jonathan Z. Simon, and Alessandro Presacco found that adults aged 6…
Source: http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2016/10/31/could-you-repeat-that-study-links-hearing-loss-to-brain-aging/
It’s Not Your Ears, It’s Your Brain (UMD release):
“Could you repeat that?” The reason you may have to say something twice when talking to older family members at Thanksgiving dinner may not be because of their hearing. Researchers at the University of Maryland have determined that something is going on in the brains of typical older adults that causes them to struggle to follow speech amidst background noise, even when their hearing would be considered normal on a clinical assessment.
In an interdisciplinary study published by the Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers Samira Anderson, Jonathan Z. Simon, and Alessandro Presacco found that adults aged 6…
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