Mayo Clinic on Hearing and Balance, Hear Better, Improve Your Balance, Enjoy Life Quotes

“ENG and VNG detect periods of uncontrolled, back-and-forth eye movements (nystagmus). Nystagmus (nis-TAG-mus) may indicate a disorder or injury that’s disrupting the vestibuloocular reflex.”
― Jamie Bogle, Mayo Clinic on Hearing and Balance, Hear Better, Improve Your Balance, Enjoy Life

“The middle ear bones have to increase the intensity of the sound before it gets to the cochlea because sound waves do not travel as well through fluid as they do in the air.”
― Jamie Bogle, Mayo Clinic on Hearing and Balance, Hear Better, Improve Your Balance, Enjoy Life

“Timbre The most subjective aspect of sound might be its timbre (TAM-bur). Timbre describes the quality of sound. It allows you to tell the difference between sounds of the same frequency and intensity, like the same note played by different musical instruments or the same consonant or vowel spoken by different voices. The tone of a piccolo or flute, for example, vibrates within a restricted range of frequencies. This tone would be represented”
― Jamie Bogle, Mayo Clinic on Hearing and Balance, Hear Better, Improve Your Balance, Enjoy Life

“Transcranial magnetic stimulation”
― Jamie Bogle, Mayo Clinic on Hearing and Balance, Hear Better, Improve Your Balance, Enjoy Life

“Hidden hearing loss Some people have typical audiogram results, yet have trouble hearing in certain situations. Others have more trouble understanding than expected for a certain type of hearing loss. This is known as hidden hearing loss. People with hidden hearing loss usually have trouble understanding speech in environments with a lot of background noise but can hear sounds — even someone whispering — in a quiet room. Historically, experts have focused on damage to hair cells or nerves in the ear as a potential cause of hidden hearing loss. The thinking is that this hearing loss is caused by the aging process and exposure to loud noises. But other, bigger issues may be at play: Loud noises can cause a loss of connections between inner hair cells and the auditory nerve (synapses). Audiograms are performed in quiet rooms, and only a few synapses are needed to hear in this situation. But if there is a lot of competing noise, the ear must try to process the sound by activating certain synapses. When these synapses are lost, signals may become more muddled, leaving the brain to struggle to understand the message.”
― Jamie M. Bogle, Mayo Clinic on Hearing and Balance, Hear Better, Improve Your Balance, Enjoy Life

“Surfer’s ear An overgrowth of bone can cause benign tumors to form in the ear canal. These tumors can get big enough that they block the ear canal and trap earwax and water. Ear infection also may develop. This condition is known as surfer’s ear because it develops in many people who surf. The growths are associated with long-term exposure to water and wind. The colder the water temperature, the higher the risk. That’s because cold-water surfers are more likely to develop these tumors than are warm-water surfers. Treating surfer’s ear The tumors seen in surfer’s ear grow slowly and often don’t cause problems.”
― Jamie M. Bogle, Mayo Clinic on Hearing and Balance, Hear Better, Improve Your Balance, Enjoy Life