Researchers at the University of Colorado suggest that the portion of the brain devoted to hearing can become reorganized, reassigned to other functions, even with early-stage hearing loss, and may play a role in cognitive decline.  The team state that they have applied fundamental principles of neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to forge new connections, to determine the ways it adapts to hearing loss, … Continue reading Researchers begin to map brain functioning in age-related hearing loss.