Can't Hear People When There's Noise Around? New Study Links This to Dementia Risk

www.sciencealert.com ^ | Fri Jul 23, 2021 | CLARE WATSON & The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.

[catnipman]

“Can’t Hear People When There’s Noise Around? New Study Links This to Dementia Risk”

do spouses count?

[Clutch Martin]

If your hearing isn’t damaged already.

[ecomcon]

It strikes me as more fear porn. Everything is supposed to make us fearful of something. I’m sick of it.

Not directed at you, Red Badger, just saying.

[4Liberty]

[Capt. Tom]

This sounds like just one more bullshit study our tax dollars have been wasted on.

I believe that statement is correct.

All the research on Alzheimer's has only cost billions of dollars and produced nothing but speculations, an no real knowledge of what causes Alzheimer's and how to prevent it or treat it, or stop its downhill progression.

You can always count on Alzheimer's groups to have their hand out for more money for research. -Tom

[right way right]

huh?

[Albion Wilde]

WIFE: You never listen to me.

HUSBAND: Why do you say that?

WIFE: I ask you questions and you don’t answer. I tell you what needs doing or what I need you to bring home from the store, and you don’t do it; and if I remind you that I told you, you say you don’t remember, or that I never said it. I call you for dinner and you don’t get up. You just don’t listen to me.

HUSBAND: What?

[Albion Wilde]

Too many years Target Shooting

For me, too many rock concerts.

[Dogbert41]

Oh boy I want one of those plates!!!

[Albion Wilde]

This piece seems similar to the observation that musicians with perfect pitch suddenly find that disappears, or at least changes at around age 60....

Some hear "Laurel." Some hear "Yanny." I heard "Covfefe."

[Albion Wilde]

Would you please explain the joke “TIMAAY”? Sorry, don’t get it.

[pfflier]

My dementia must have started on the flightline then.

Who knew that 14 B-52s with 8 screeching engines each, would not be the cause of my hearing loss?

[4Liberty]

Timmy - from “South Park” cartoon series.

[Albion Wilde]

Thank you. I never watched it, but hear about it on FR!

[oldbill]

Dementia is caused by calendar pages.

The more calendar pages you tear off, the more likely you are to get dementia.

Treatment: don’t rip off calendar pages. It’s fatal.

[Gene Eric]

The increasing inability to recognize known audio patterns from noisy environments. That’s not a hearing nor memory problem — that’s a compute problem. So perhaps the dementia is accelerated by cognitive decline, or is simply cosymptomatic.

Would be good if the other senses were also tested.

[GranTorino]

Or does the hearing loss cause the dementia?

[ETCM]

Or does the hearing loss cause the dementia?

While the two are linked, I've not heard of deafness causing dementia, and you would expect a very strong correlation if that were the case. Since hearing occurs in the temporal lobe, the same part of the brain responsible for memory, meaning and language, I suspect it's just an early symptom of the temporal lobe failure.

[ETCM]

I should add, I am no expert, let alone a neurologist!

[GranTorino]

Thanks.
I have hearing loss from work and don’t want to get dementia from it. Good reason to get a hearing aid, just to be on the safe side.