Sentences with phrase «from cochlear»

The other deaf people, those who carried out the task at the same speed as the control subjects, remain anchored to orality and therefore gain more benefit from cochlear implants.

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Colorado - based Cochlear's processors gather sound from the environment, turning it into an electrical signal and send it to an electrode implanted in the ears of people with hearing loss.

People with cochlear implants can now listen to music straight from a microchip into their neural system.

A Raleigh family reveals how cochlear implants and early intervention from parent educators have helped their daughter flourish at school.

Marcelo Rivolta of the University of Sheffield in the UK and colleagues extracted cochlear stem cells from aborted fetuses, with the consent of the women involved.

Researchers at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), together with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), have developed a new, low - power signal - processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that requires no external hardware.

«Cochlear implants are great, but your own hearing is better in terms of range of frequencies, nuance for hearing voices, music and background noise, and figuring out which direction a sound is coming from.

We have always augmented ourselves in the face of challenges, creating artefacts from clothing to cellphones to cochlear implants.

Below, blue: right occipito - tempora uncoupling after deafness, indicating a good cochlear implant outcome (adapted from Strelnikov et al. 2013).

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Jian Zuo screened over 4,000 drugs for their ability to protect cochlear cells from the chemotherapy agent cisplatin.

Zuo and colleagues identified multiple compounds that protected cochlear cells from cisplatin, several of which are already approved to treat other conditions.

In cases of severe to profound hearing loss where there is no benefit from conventional amplification (i.e. hearing aids), cochlear implantation that uses direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve has proven successful and selected older patients are among those who can benefit, according to the study background.

• Speech language pathologists work with many types of patients including those who have cochlear implantation surgery, suffer from a voice disorder or during rehabilitation following treatment for head and neck cancer.

Compared with stimulation from traditional cochlear implant electrodes, the light produced more precise neural activity in the brain stem, similar to normal hearing.

The Technion team hopes to deploy Virob into the ears of people suffering from hearing loss, stimulating nerve cells that lie beyond the reach of cochlear implants.

Many people with profound hearing loss have been helped by devices called cochlear implants, but their hearing is still far from normal.

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Dad spends many hours trying to repair her broken Cochlear implant by boosting the signal with scavenged radio parts from the abandoned town.

This category is identified as a hearing impairment (fluctuating or permanent) that is severe enough to impact the process of verbal information (with or without amplification from hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.) and adversely affects — you guessed it — a child's performance.

The children's age at the time of enrollment in the cochlear implant program ranged from 3 to 35 months, with a mean of 18 months (SD = 10.94).