FUNDED PhD STUDENT POSITION – Speech and Bilingualism Group- AT THE BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTIÁN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: PhD studentResearcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1- up to the point of PhD)Number of vacancies: 1Project: ReadCalibration ERC projectOrganisation/Company: BCBL Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and LanguageLocation: Spain> San SebastianResearch Field: Neuroscience> Cognition and Language> Phonetics / Phonology / AcousticsType of contract/Duration of Contract : Temporary = 4 yearsJob Status: Full-timeHours per week: 35Starting date: Between May 1st and October 1st 2022Application deadline...
Source: Talking Brains - February 16, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Exploring links between hearing loss, dementia and the ‘cognitive reserve’ — plus the role of hearing aids
How does your hearing affect dementia risk? (Alzheimer’s Research UK):
With around 1 million people affected by dementia in the UK, and 12 million people estimated to have a type of hearing loss, it’s never been more important to understand this link.
One way that hearing loss and dementia could be linked is through our blood system.
Certain types of dementia, particularly vascular dementia, are caused when there is less blood flow reaching the brain. This can damage our brain cells. Recent studies have also shown that the parts of our brain that process sounds (our auditory system) have many blood vessels and are vuln...
Source: SharpBrains - February 10, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer’s cognitive-reserve dementia hearing aids hearing loss vascular dementia Source Type: blogs
What to use instead of NICE Evidence Search - a first thought
I have been promoting NICE Evidence Search much more systematically this year to " my " first year undergraduates in their first library session. It is also on the resource lists I ' ve made for each of their courses. I like the idea that there is one source, where all the results have been evaluated by health information professionals, and I ' ve suggested it ' s a good first place to search for any health topic. But NICE Evidence Search is closing at the end of March 2022. So what to use instead?NICE Evidence Search has two lists of sources, one of sites where some of the content is...
Source: Browsing - February 9, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: NICE Evidence Search Source Type: blogs
Thought-to-Text Brain-Computer Interface: Interview with Florian Solzbacher, Chairman of Blackrock Neurotech
Blackrock Neurotech, a medical technology company based in Salt Lake City, created a suite of brain-computer interface systems with the goal of empowering patients to have increased independence and quality of life. This latest technology aims to restore written communication in patients who have difficulties in this regard, such as those affected by paralysis.
The company’s new system, which Blackrock aims to make available in late 2022, allows patients to type text by merely imagining themselves writing or typing the words. The system uses machine learning to decode neural signals that occur while someone is ima...
Source: Medgadget - December 28, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 20th 2021
In conclusion, the low dose, prolonged angiotensin II exposure is associated with the induction of senescence in kidneys and the promotion of an inflammatory microenvironment through both secreted factors and immune cells. Endothelial cells appear to be a major cell type impacted. The elimination of senescent cells in the INK-ATTAC transgenic model prevents these effects of angiotensin II and reveals a novel pathophysiologic mechanism amenable to targeting by senolytic drugs in development.
CYTOR Upregulation as a Path to Improved Muscle Function in Later Life
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/12/cytor-...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Cataract Surgery Correlates with Reduced Risk of Dementia
Today's research materials report on a solid correlation between cataract surgery to restore vision and lower risk of later dementia. This provides support for the view that a reduced flow of sensory information to the brain accelerates the onset of neurodegeneration and loss of function with age. This is quite distinct from the usual set of underlying biochemical processes that are investigation in connection with cognitive decline and dementia: the accumulation of molecular waste in the brain; the chronic inflammation of brain tissue; the loss of mitochondrial function; the dysfunction of the vascular system leading to l...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 13, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 15th 2021
This article will review the relationship between diabetes mellitus and AD as it relates to tau pathology. More understanding of the link between diabetes mellitus and AD could change the approach researchers and clinicians take toward both diseases, potentially leading to new treatments and preventative strategies in the future.
Signaling from White Fat Tissue Contributes to Age-Related Hair Follicle Dysfunction
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/11/signaling-from-white-fat-tissue-contributes-to-age-related-hair-follicle-dysfunction/
Changes in fat tissue behavior in the skin take place with age,...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Autophagy is Protective in the Progression Towards Age-Related Hearing Loss
This open access paper provides a good summary of present thought on the contributing causes of hearing loss, in which the various issues of noise, aging, and toxicity cause harm via inducing stress in hair cells of the inner ear and their axonal connections to the brain. Autophagy is a cell maintenance process, the recycling of damaged component parts. More efficient autophagy helps hair cells to resist and survive a stressful environments, but autophagy declines with age. Defects arise in many of the component parts of the autophagic system and its regulation. This is likely why the threshold for loss of hair cells in re...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
This . . .
. . . Explains a lot. Stupidity Update:For those who don ' t have the inclination to watch the video, I will give you the relevant quotation. It ' s from German theologian and martyr to NazismDietrich Bonhoeffer: Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 10, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Practicing medicine as a Deaf physician is an uphill battle. COVID makes it worse.
March 11, 2020, my nightmare began. “Ready to switch?” asks my American Sign Language interpreter during an all-day virtual conference. Switching from speaker view to gallery view, I search for a different speaker’s interpreter among numerous attendees, pin her video, and switch back to speaker view. This interpreter updates me on what I missed duringRead more …Practicing medicine as a Deaf physician is an uphill battle. COVID makes it worse. originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/carolyn-stern" rel="tag" > Carolyn Stern, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Source Type: blogs
Hearing Aids, the FDA, and Henry David Thoreau
David BoazThere ’s good news for people with impaired hearing: Hearing aids may soon be available over the counter, like reading glasses. But I was struck by something in this encouragingNew York Times report. The writer, Shira Ovide, is clearly enthusiastic about this new development. But notice her framing, first in the subhead of the article:Over ‐the‐counter hearing aids have the potential to showgovernment and tech companies at their best.And then throughout the article:These over ‐the‐counter hearing aids have the potential to prove that thebest efforts of government and technology companie...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 22, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Telemedicine to Monitor At-Risk COVID-19 Patients at Home
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have developed a telemedicine system for high-risk COVID-19 patients who are isolating at home. The system consists of an ear sensor that monitors a variety of physiological parameters, including heart rate, respiration, oxygen saturation, and body temperature. The project also involves clinicians calling the patient daily to check in with them. Patients may not realize that their condition is deteriorating until it is too late, and the telemedicine system aims to alert clinicians ahead of time, allowing them to intervene early.
COVID-19 can be particularly da...
Source: Medgadget - October 13, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Informatics Medicine Public Health Telemedicine @tu.muenchen Source Type: blogs
Equality Act Could Undermine Business Defendants In Web Access Suits
Walter OlsonThere ’s probably no issue of regulation on which I’ve been sounding the alarm for a longer time than on web accessibility, as it ’s called. (Exampleshere,here,here,here, andhere, amongmany others.) Many disabled ‐rights advocates believe it should be, or already is, a violation of federal law for a business or a professional practice to post content online that is not fully accessible. That means, e.g., fitted out with video captions and action descriptions, alternative text, or alternative navigation methods for the benefit of potential users who are blind, deaf, or lacking in t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 4, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Join the Inaugural NIH MOSAIC Scholars Meeting
We’re excited to host the first meeting of scholars funded through the Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program to promote faculty diversity:
Thursday, October 14, and Friday, October 15, 1:00-5:00 p.m. ET
MOSAIC is an NIH-wide program designed to facilitate the transition of promising postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds into independent, tenure-track or equivalent research-intensive faculty positions. The program has two components: an individual postdoctoral career transition award (K99/R00), and a cohort-based mentoring and career development progra...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 21, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Meetings/Events Training/Fellowships/Career Development Biomedical Graduate Education MOSAIC Postdoctoral Source Type: blogs
Caring for Kids and Parents: A Story from the Sandwich Generation
Photo credit John Mark Smith
When my elderly neighbor, Joe, was widowed, I did what most neighbors would do. I didn’t know him or his wife well, but I knew he was completely deaf and that he was probably lonely. I started to visit, thinking I could help him if he needed groceries or something. What began as a neighborly check-in continued into a kind of adoption of Joe, by myself and my two sons, ages six and eight. For five years, the kids and I were Joe’s family. Shortly after Joe passed, my aunt and uncle moved from Virginia to North Dakota to be near us, their only family. Then my parents and in-laws began ha...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 20, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
