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Jason Tait Sanchez provides insight into why the genetically modified chicken is a sound approach to the study of hearing

We look at the the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)'s work around helping those with hearing loss.

Chief Executive for Action on Hearing Loss, Mark Atkinson charts the priorities for research into deafness, hearing loss and tinnitus towards a cure

The vital work of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) are explored here by Open Access Government, with a special focus on neurodegenerative disorders.

Growing up with Specific Language Impairment can impact a child's development in a number of ways. Professor Mabel Rice of the University of Kansas discusses the issues.

Video game based “brain training” could potentially aid people with schizophrenia, a new study has revealed

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe from Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision Group highlights technology interventions that address dyspnoea – focussing on point-of-care lung ultrasonography The Murray and Nadel’s Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (Schwartzstein and Adams, 2016), etymologically defines dyspnoea from the Greek dys (painful, difficult) and pneuma (breath). Clinically, dyspnoea constitutes a medical...

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe from Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision Group provides a comprehensive overview of sensory processing disorder (SPD) in children today Children with sensory processing disorder or dysfunction (SPD) are characterised by the occurrence of inward information in very atypical, diverting modes. Energising diagnosis and treatment through multi-sensory behaviour and activity...

Writing on behalf of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Dr. Bhanu Ramaswamy highlights how physiotherapy can help manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s

AG looks at how technology such as hearing aids can help people with deafblindness lead independent lives. In the UK alone it is believed that there are around 250,000 deafblind people – which is a combination of sight and hearing impairment. The disability is one with very little understanding, and...

In the past, those born both deaf and blind were consigned to a life of limited or non-existent communications – but a research team based at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands in close collaboration with the Royal Dutch Kentalis Deafblindness Center for Excellence – is developing new techniques...