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“The hearing areas of the brain shrink in age-related hearing loss,” said Anu Sharma, PhD, a researcher on the Uni- versity of Colorado study. “Centers of the brain that are typically used for higher- level decision-making are then activated in just hearing sounds. These compensatory changes increase the overall load on the brains of aging adults. Compensatory brain reorganization second- ary to hearing loss may also be a factor in explaining recent reports in the literature that show age-related hearing loss is significantly correlated with dementia.”


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Compensatory brain reor- ganization could explain why age-related hearing loss is so strongly correlated with demen- tia, and why it must be taken se- riously. Even in the early stages of hearing loss, the brain begins to reorganize. Knowing this, the solution could be as simple as early hearing loss screening


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So What? So, the question is less about whether


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