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A Magical Voyage Through Your Ear
Tweet Imagine yourself miniaturized and given the opportunity to take a grand tour through your hearing mechanism. For the purpose of illustration, your trip is being booked with Eartrak, a subsidiary...
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Treating Dizzy Spells
Tweet Common dizziness complaints The room is spinning. When I roll over in bed I get dizzy. When I look up in the shower to rinse my hair, I almost fall down. I’ve tried not to move because I’m...
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Human, Animal, and Plant Balance
Tweet Hearing and balance are very closely related in humans, but what about animals and plants? Yes, despite what you may think, plants do have a sense of balance. Human balance In humans, the sense...
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Why You Need Two Good Ears to Hear Well
Tweet Binaural hearing Hearing, like eyesight, is something that many of us take for granted. Most of us probably never think about the fact that we need two ears to hear properly. What happens when...
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Amygdala Connection
Tweet Is this you? Why do people with misophonia become so upset and angry with sounds when they don’t bother most people? Part of our brain that controls emotions is the limbic system. It is part of...
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Misophonia and Headphones:
Tweet A situation that just gets worse When specific sounds fill up all of your hearing, and when they hurt (and it happens all the time for those with misophonia), you just want the sounds to stop....
View ArticleThe Advantages of Binaural Hearing
Has your audiologist recommended binaural hearing devices? Don’t panic. Binaural simply means two ears — which is what nature gave you. Two ears are, indeed, better than one for a number of reasons....
View ArticleMake the Most of Your Hearing — (Re)Train Your Brain!
We hear in our ears, but we process and understand sound in our brain. Hearing aids can help a person detect sounds that are no longer in their range of audibility, but they don’t necessarily provide...
View ArticleEarwax – It Deserves a Better Reputation!
More than just dirt in your ears? Though its medical name is cerumen, most of us refer to it as earwax. While I agree that neither term sounds very attractive, I will argue that earwax has gotten an...
View ArticleThe Mechanics of the Ear
How the ear works The ear is divided into three parts: the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear The outer ear includes the pinna (the visible/external part of our ears), the...
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