Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf mice... down to a whisper

medicalxpress.com ^ | February 6, 2017 | Provided by: Children's Hospital Boston

[Red Badger]

[Stevenc131]

My wife says I never hear anything she says. Maybe gene therapy would help?

[Reno89519]

I’m told the same thing. I think it is a gender issue wherein my wife, as an example, does not speak to be heard, yet is quick to hold everyone accountable for what she supposedly said.

[Tallguy]

Selective hearing... I have that, too.

[Red Badger]

Get her some new jeans?..................

[Salamander]

Be great if they’d work on anosmia.

[Red Badger]

I had that for about six months.................

[Secret Agent Man]

Gene therapy for bigger boobs?

I heard you honey, and no, I cant look up at your face.

[Red Badger]

Sounds like my wife........................

[houeto]

Thank you for the ping Red Badger.

[acapesket]

Thanx Red.

Rest o youse Shaddup! :)
I deplore bad wife jokes!

[Gay State Conservative]

Having been involved with research at Harvard Medical School for many years it's worth noting,in taking this story seriously,that this country has the finest physicians,surgeons and medical researchers on earth and yet a couple of Rat Party lawyers,and an MIT professor (who joked about the stupidity of the American people),decided to tip our health care system on its head.

If DJT does nothing else during his Presidency,repealing ObamaCare would be a huge step in making this country great again.

[Pelham]

That would be great, too. Restoring any of the senses would be magical.

[Pelham]

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=anosmia+gene+therapy

[soycd]

Will the idea work to eliminate the mind sick gene of islam?

[dfwgator]

My wife says I never hear anything she says.

At least I think that's what she says.

[lysie]

I don’t believe it. Yesterday I was thinking about you and your “hearing” pings. Thanks.

[WVNan]

Reno, generally when we start accusing others of not speaking loudly enough, the problem is not with them but with us. Have your hearing checked to keep harmony (just saying).

[donna]

While most of us actually hear female voices more clearly, men’s brains hear women’s voices first as music. But it’s not music. It’s someone giving them a honey-do list. So the brain goes into overdrive trying to analyze what is being said.

Bottom line: Men have to work harder deciphering what women are saying because they use the auditory part of the brain that processes music, not human voices. Men’s brains are not designed to listen to women’s voices. It’s not the pitch of the woman’s voice, but rather the vibration and number of sound waves that cause the problem, notes Discovery News.

But guys have no trouble at all hearing each other because men use a much simpler brain mechanism at the back of the brain to decipher another man’s voice and recognize it as speech.
http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/men/package.jsp?floc=DC-topb&name=fte/womenspeak/womenspeak