Readers of the publication
Trends in Neurosciences will already know today’s fact. For the other 99.9
percent of us, though, it is definitely interesting.
According to a story in the June 2016 edition,
research has confirmed that “even relatively mild levels of hearing loss” can
lead to cascading negative effects on the brain. Those effects can impact
perception, comprehension and memory.
The thinking goes: the more effort it takes to
listen and piece together what someone is saying (due to hearing loss), the
more it impacts other cognitive operations, “such as remembering what has been
heard.” It’s one huge reason why experts at Johns Hopkins recommend treating
hearing loss sooner rather than later.
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