The noise sounds like wind, or heavy rain, or the steady hum of an airline jet. It sounds like water rushing somewhere in the distance, like a gentle fan ruffling currents of cool air. It’s ...

WHITE NOISE AND SLEEP How It Helps, What to Use, and Tips for Better Rest White noise has become a go-to sleep solution for ...

New research has given us insight into why some people can't handle being in a crowded room and how the brain rewires itself ...

The result, they say, creates a "fuzzy" sound stage that makes it difficult for the brain to focus on one type of sound—such as spoken words—and filter out surrounding "noise." Scientists have ...

However, being exposed to white noise over the long term might not be a great idea for brain function, because of the brain's tendency to adapt to what it hears. "Studies have shown that exposure ...

You are not having to work at it,” she said. All that noise-canceling can cause your brain to overcompensate, according to David McAlpine, the academic director of Macquarie University Hearing ...

As they age, some people find it harder to understand speech in noisy environments. Now, UB researchers have identified the area in the brain, called the insula, that shows significant changes in ...

And there is evidence that axons with a diameter less than about 1 micron (which most in the brain are) are susceptible to noise. In other words, the brain is a noisy system. If this noise simply ...

Say you are listening to a piece of music on the radio, but traffic noise is in the background. Kraus says your brain will tell the outer hair cells to slow down and deamplify the traffic noise to ...

But scientists don’t have a technical definition for so-called food noise, and they are only be­ginning to understand how synthetic GLP-1 acts not just in the digestive system but in the brain.