Researchers affiliated with UMD’s Brain and Behavior Initiative published a study recently that could dramatically change the way society looks at hearing loss in the elderly. The journal, entitled “Evidence of degraded representation of speech in noise, in the aging midbrain and cortex,” looks into the loss of the brain’s speech processing capabilities over the course of a lifespan. The researchers found that when older … Continue reading New UMD study sheds light on old age hearing loss