Recent content by d'Wooluf

No. I was assessed as 'borderline' and basically chickened out. I didn't want to lose my residual hearing and there are two or three trials of formulations going on right now that might help prevent that. That's my current excuse.

This is the one you're thinking of.

Treating cochlear synaptopathy wouldn't make sounds any louder. Just clearer.

That gene therapy is for vision. They use that example to suggest that when gene therapy for hearing restoration becomes available, it may not come cheap. I found the article hopeful because there are university trials in place as we speak. Loss of residual hearing is the main thing holding...

This is an interesting read: Fusing Biology with the Bionic Ear

Hearing loss and dementia. Two human conditions where you'd think that just a leeetle bit of government financing and proactivity could do a huge amount of good. Yet the heavy lifting is left to dinky little startups looking for their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

At least some of the IP was conditionally licensed to Frequency Therapeutics by MIT. It may possibly revert to them. I don't know. In this case, it was developed in university labs, funded by the taxpayer or charitable donations. That's one good reason. Assuming the IP is worth anything now...

I don't think so. I think he was suffering. Paranoia and aggression was part of how he responded. You know, thinking about it, I agree with you.

I'm going in for my cochlear implant evaluation in about three hours. I understand that voices can start to sound more natural over the course of days, weeks, or even months—it's highly variable.

If you were going to put forward a cautionary view back in the day, first you had to get past @JohnAdams. He reacted aggressively to any "negativity". Then you were made to feel like you were messing with people'' mental health. So it was never the best environment for having a balanced...

The womb is a very noisy place actually.

@Tau, didn't they do a trial (in Germany?) that determined that the drug did reach the site of action? It was a weird way of putting it. It was like the drug got where it was supposed to, because that is where it got. Speech-in-noise scores only became the main endpoint when it was obvious...

Both. I can just function in quiet with hearing aids. I can't function in noise at all. I've got every reason to at least get evaluated but I'm procrastinating. Everyone tells me they've come a long way in the last few years.

Close to profound at the higher frequencies. There's been a big drop off from 1 kHz up over the last few years, so heading south inexorably. Word recognition scores were poor as well which I think is just as important for cochlear implant evaluation. I haven't got the results to hand, sorry.

I saw an audiologist back in December who told me that a cochlear implant might be the next step for me. There are lots of things you can have valid anxieties about with cochlear implants. But along with all of them there was this other thought in the back of my mind. What if I do the cochlear...