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Causes of Sudden Onset of Deafness by George Strain, PhD

The book, Deaf Dog: A Book of Advice, Facts and Experiences about Canine Deafness by Susan Cope Becker may provide the owner of a deaf dog with valuable information.

For «super-readers», the fact of having adapted to deafness by developing certain «supra - natural» visual capabilities constitutes a handicap for the use of implants.

Not exact matches

The unusual gestures and the use of spittle (a traditional habit of ancient exorcists) can perhaps be explained by the man's deafness: he is unable to hear the usual word of command and healing.

Hickson documented his assertion with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches, and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by evil spirits, asthma, stammering, and curvature of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness, and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing of sin - sick souls» and «the healing of the body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy, and mental disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»

Thoth cured Horus by spitting in his eye, and Jesus cured one man's blindness and another's deafness through targeted application of messianic phlegm.

The absence of these factors by 18 months old may indicate low vision or deafness, autism or attachment disorders.

Funding / Support: This project was supported by contract N01 - HD -5-3227 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

In this case, the baby may be affected by cerebral palsy, different kinds of brain damage, and even deafness.

It may be that some versions of the gene also play a role in deafness caused by environmental conditions, creating a predisposition to hearing loss.

They are vital for hearing in mammals but are easily damaged by loud noise, which can lead to deafness.

Several of them have Usher syndrome or a similar course of the disease with impaired hearing or deafness from birth accompanied by progressive problems with vision in their 30s.

To avoid that muddle, Steve Brown and Xue - Zhong Liu, molecular biologists at the Medical Research Council's Mouse Genome Center in Harwell, England, sought families in remote areas of the world, where the families» deafness is more likely to be caused by a single mutated gene.

Hearing loss in mice with a form of progressive deafness has been slowed by a one - off treatment using the CRISPR genome editing method.

A few years ago, scientists at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) in Bethesda, Maryland, discovered that being «tune - deaf» is mostly determined by genes.

The work was supported by grants from the National Eye Institute (EY008117), the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC007864), and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM102965 and GM107405).

Researchers from the Eaton - Peabody Laboratories of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have created a new mouse model in which by expressing a gene in the inner ear hair cells — the sensory cells that detect sound and sense balance — protects the mice from age - related hearing loss (ARHL) and noise - induced hearing loss (NIHL), the two most common forms of deafness.

The research was supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the National Institutes of Health, under award numbers R01DC007487, R01DC009613, and DC010012, and core facility grant P30 DC011735.

The second part of the sum concerned nonfatal health problems, weighting each on a scale from 0 (perfect health) to 1 (death)-- blindness being worse than deafness, moderate dementia being worse than autism, neck pain being worse than infertility and so on, as rated originally by a panel of experts and now by statistically representative surveys of the general public around the world.

Over the next few years, similar maternal blood tests could detect hundreds of diseases caused by chromosome abnormalities or mutations, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, Tay - Sachs disease, and genetic deafness and blindness.

Funding support for the study was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the National Institute of Mental Health, both members of the National Institutes of Health.

Inner ear stem cells can be converted to auditory neurons that could reverse deafness, but the process can also make those cells divide too quickly, posing a cancer risk, according to a study led by Rutgers University - New Brunswick scientists.

HEARING loss in mice with a form of progressive deafness has been slowed by CRISPR genome editing.

In human hereditary hearing loss, deafness has already occurred by birth.

In humans, deafness is most often caused by damage to inner ear hair cells — so named because they sport hairlike cilia that bend when they encounter vibrations from sound waves — or by damage to the neurons that transmit that information to the brain.

The study was supported by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD046388, DC75763, DC02054 and DC008822).

And now, new research by academics at the University of Nottingham has suggested that the impact of the condition on those closest to them should be considered when personalising rehabilitation plans for patients with deafness.

Eye and Ear clinicians and scientists are driven by a mission to find cures for blindness, deafness and diseases of the head and neck.

Research reported in the publication was supported by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC014105, DC000882, F32 - DC012980, 5T32DC0014, and DC011735) of the National Institutes of Health.

The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs.

The research was supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (grant R01DC015426) of the National Institutes of Health.

In 1997, he contributed to the development and validation of the OLA - PCR cystic fibrosis diagnostic panel commercialized by Applied Biosystems, and to the identification of the autosomal recessive neurosensory deafness connexin 26 gene.

Research reported in the publication was supported by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC013807 and DC011735) of the National Institutes of Health.

Pendred syndrome and DFNB4 are inherited conditions characterized by deafness and structural problems with the inner ear.

It is characterized by deafness at birth, poor balance, and vision loss that worsens over time.

It is more likely to be used by individuals who have acquired deafness in adulthood rather than by those who have grown up deaf.

Not by anyone demonstrating tone deafness in every scene, it shouldn't.

Frustrated by continually escalating threats to the environment and by the deafness shown by political leaders, Josh (Jesse Eisenberg, «Now You See Me») an organic farmer who lives in an agricultural cooperative in Oregon, Dena (Dakota Fanning, «The Last of Robin Hood») a young college dropout with considerable family wealth, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard, «Green Lantern»), an ex-Marine with expert knowledge of explosives, decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam as a protest against the desecration of the environment.

Whatever salient points and emotional truths it gets are undone by the tone deafness of this choice.

Thankfully, this tone deafness is not shared by the no - frills «Bullet To The Head,» an almost polar opposite of Schwarzenegger's abysmal comeback vehicle.

For Live by Night, the external mess is the hubbub over whether or not Affleck will direct an anticipated standalone Batman movie to rescue DC and Warner Bros. from their own curious tone - deafness.

Rose (Millicent Simmonds) is a young girl apparently besotted with a great actress, Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore), and besieged at home by an imperious father (James Urbaniak), who locks her away out of concern that her deafness puts her in some undefinable danger.

Special education programs and services are provided by trained personnel in the following areas as defined by federal and state law: autism, deaf - blindness, deafness, developmental delay, hearing impairment, intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, emotional disabilities, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury or visual impairment including blindness.

The term «severe handicap» means the disability which requires multiple services over an extended period of time and results from amputation, blindness, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, heart disease, hemiplegia, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia, quadriplegia and other spinal cord conditions, renal failure, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, and any other disability specified by the Secretary in regulations he shall prescribe.

Often that comes with a fervor that is hard to contain, and sometimes that fervor is joined by a type of «blindness» or «deafness» to suggestions, recommendations, or even business realities.

«Some [canine] deafness can be caused by bad breeding,» said Lee.

www.lsu.edu/deafness/deaf.htm Information about deafness, including genetics, breeding recommendations, and management by Dr. George M. Strain.

Deafness may be caused by a number of factors, including congenital defects, chronic ear infections, head injuries, drug toxicity, degenerative nerve changes, old age or disease, such as a tumor or ruptured ear drum.

Though a deaf dog will make up for a lack of hearing by utilizing his other senses, it is important to know that his deafness can make him vulnerable in some situations.

Certain dog breeds are more commonly affected by congenital deafness, including the Dalmatian, English Setter, Havanese, and more.