Hearing Loss and Default‐Mode Network Connectivity in Older Adults with Subjective Cognitive Decline and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Nicole Grant, Natalie Phillips · 2025
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Nicole Grant and Natalie Phillips link hearing loss to brain network patterns in a 2025 study. Hearing loss raises dementia risk, and the brain's default mode network shifts in hearing loss, in subjective decline, and in mild impairment alike. Those shifts track worse test scores and, in impairment, the march toward dementia. The team study the network in elders who carry both hearing loss and early cognitive complaints.
Data came from a national dementia assessment study. If altered connectivity is the bridge between deafness and decline, it becomes a treatment target: hearing care might protect the network. The study sharpens that hypothesis in the exact group where prevention could start earliest.
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| CREATOR | Nicole Grant, Natalie Phillips |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |