Background. There are about 1.6 billion GSM cellular phones in use throughout the world today. Numerous papers have reported various biological effects in humans exposed to electromagnetic fields ...

Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...

The Audiology group in the UAB Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery includes three main components: diagnostic testing, hearing aid services, and implantable technologies. Impedance ...

Doctors may diagnose hearing loss using a range of techniques, such as audiometry tests, brainstem auditory evoked response tests, and otoacoustic emissions tests. Hearing loss can affect one or both ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --People with persistent ringing in their ears, or tinnitus, are suffering from auditory nerve loss that goes undetected in standard hearing tests, a new U.S. study has found. The ...

Researchers who explored responses to the standard hearing test administered to millions of newborns around the world are closing in on a way to detect early indicators of autism -- perhaps as early ...

For years, researchers have known through numerous studies that hearing and other sensory systems of adults and children who have autism differ from children or adults without autism. Now, University ...