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2022 Grantee News Items

An alarming prevalence of smell, taste loss during COVID’s delta surge
Ohio State University (05/26/2022)
Keck Medicine of USC study demonstrates the need for early cochlear implant use for deaf children, regardless of developmental impairments
University of Southern California (05/24/2022)
Discovery revives old theory of the origins of hearing loss
Erasmus MC (05/18/2022)
How mosquito brains encode human odor so they can seek us out
Princeton University (05/04/2022)
New tool to create hearing cells lost in aging
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (05/04/2022)
Improving music appreciation for the world’s more than 700,000 cochlear implant users
University of Southern California (04/29/2022)
People around the world like the same kinds of smell
Karolinska Institutet (04/04/2022)
New research pinpoints promising gene target for specific language impairment
University of Kansas (03/15/2022)
Synthetic viral vector and surgical technique effectively deliver genetic cargo to inner ear in preclinical study
Massachusetts Eye and Ear via EurekAlert! (03/15/2022)
Using social cues to adjust conversational behavior may be challenging for autistic children and teens
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (03/15/2022)
Researcher develops new methods to understand how the brain responds to sounds – including singing
University of Rochester (02/23/2022)
Will hearing aids ever be as effective as corrective eyewear?
University of Rochester (02/22/2022)
Frequent use of over-the-counter analgesics associated with risk of tinnitus
Brigham and Women’s Hospital via EurekAlert! (02/09/2022)
A map for the sense of smell: Evolution has structured flies with an energy-efficient olfactory system
University of California San Diego (01/28/2022)
Where did that sound come from? MIT neuroscientists have developed a computer model that can answer that question as well as the human brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (01/27/2022)