It turns out that age related hearing loss isn't just in your ears. Although in the past, researchers blamed hearing loss solely on damage within the inner ear, they now say problems with age related hearing also happens within the brain. Researchers at the University of Zurich have shown that as people age, the auditory cortex things and the brain has to work harder to decode certain sounds. This happens in older people with and without hearing loss. But there's good news for the brains of people who use hearing aids.

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