Disability News -- ScienceDaily

• Experimental brain-controlled hearing aid decodes, identifies who you want to hear

  Our brains have a remarkable knack for picking out individual voices in a noisy environment, like a crowded coffee shop or a busy city street. This is something that even the most advanced hearing aids struggle to do. But now engineers are announcing an experimental technology that mimics the brain's natural aptitude for detecting and amplifying any one voice from many.

• Fooling nerve cells into acting normal

  Scientists have discovered that a neuron's own electrical signal, or voltage, can indicate whether the neuron is functioning normally. If that voltage is absent, scientists say everything is 'out of whack.'

• Stem cells provide information about neuron resilience in ALS

  Researchers have developed a stem cell based model in order to study the resilience and vulnerability of neurons in the neurodegenerative disease ALS. The results can aid in the identification of new genetic targets for treatments protecting sensitive neurons.