Protect & Improve Your Hearing & Brain Health | Dr. Konstantina Stankovic
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My guest is Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology at Stanford School of Medicine. She explains how hearing works and why hearing loss—affecting over 1.5 billion people—impacts people of all ages. We discuss how hearing loss impairs focus and increases the risk of cognitive decline, as well as the role of menopause and other biological milestones in hearing health. We share science-backed protocols to protect your hearing and highlight risks to avoid. And we discuss tinnitus—its causes and treatment options.
Articles
- Tinnitus prevalence, associated characteristics, and related healthcare use in the United States: a population-level analysis (The Lancet Regional Health – Americas)
- A novel microneedle device for controlled and reliable liquid biopsy of the human inner ear (Hearing Research)
- Oral magnesium intake reduces permanent hearing loss induced by noise exposure (American Journal of Otolaryngology)
- The functional neuroanatomy of tinnitus: evidence for limbic system links and neural plasticity (Neurology)
- Gene Therapy for Human Sensorineural Hearing Loss (Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience)
- Adding insult to injury: cochlear nerve degeneration after “temporary” noise-induced hearing loss (The Journal of Neuroscience)
- Current and Emerging Therapies for Chronic Subjective Tinnitus (Journal of Clinical Medicine)
- Vision without inversion of the retinal image (Psychological Review)
- Analgesic use and the risk of hearing loss in men (The American Journal of Medicine)
- Ototoxicity of polystyrene nanoplastics in mice, HEI-OC1 cells and zebrafish (Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience)
- Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status (Cell)
- Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep (Current Biology)
- Light pollution prolongs avian activity (Science)
- Hair cell regeneration after acoustic trauma in adult Coturnix quail (Science)
- An essential signaling cascade for avian auditory hair cell regeneration (Developmental Cell)
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People Mentioned
- François Rabelais: French author
- Hellen Keller: American author
- Michael Merzenich: professor of neuroscience, UCSF
- Ervin Hafter: professor of psychology, UC Berkeley
- Lloyd Minor: Dean, Stanford School of Medicine
- Georg von Békésy : Hungarian-American biophysicist, Nobel laureate
- William Dement: pioneering sleep researcher, Stanford University
- David Corey: professor of translational medical science, Harvard Medical School
- A. James Hudspeth: neuroscientist, Rockefeller University
About this Guest
Dr. Konstantina Stankovic
Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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