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2021 Grantee News Items

Implant improves balance, movement, and quality of life for people with inner ear disorder
Johns Hopkins Medicine (02/11/2021)
Hearing acrobatics: Dynamic, delicate grip between protein filaments enables hearing
Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital (02/08/2021)
Cochlear implants aid speech recognition in most adults
Medical University of South Carolina via HealthDay (01/14/2021)
Behaviors surrounding oral sex may increase HPV-related cancer risk: Study adds context to limited knowledge of the disease
Johns Hopkins Medicine (01/14/2021)
Memory may be preserved in condition with brain changes similar to Alzheimer's disease
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine via American Academy of Neurology (01/13/2021)
Researchers develop smart apps to help people with hearing loss: Latest NIH-funded project uses artificial intelligence to cut extraneous noise
University of Texas at Dallas (01/13/2021)
As the brain plans movements, the middle frontal gyrus is listening: A brain-computer interface study reveals one brain region’s surprising role in planning movements exclusively in response to sounds
Brown University (01/12/2021)
LLNL develops optical capability for thin-film neural implants to look into brain activity
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (01/05/2021)