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Newest in this topic

  1. Interacting Role of Social Determinants of Health and Hearing Loss on Cognitive Decline: An ACTIVE Longitudinal Study 2026-10-20
  2. Auditory brainstem response latencies, but not amplitudes, are associated with gray matter volumes across the human auditory pathway in older adults 2026-08-26
  3. Relationships Among Hearing, Auditory Processing, and Cognition: A Study of Older Adults 2026-08-07

Studies

118 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1980 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 9
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 5
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 5
  • The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 5
  • bioRxiv 5

71 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Interacting Role of Social Determinants of Health and Hearing Loss on Cognitive Decline: An ACTIVE Longitudinal Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-20 Risk factors

    These findings indicate that the cognitive impact of hearing loss depends on structural resources, highlighting the need to integrate sensory health and social context in dementia prevention efforts.

  2. Auditory brainstem response latencies, but not amplitudes, are associated with gray matter volumes across the human auditory pathway in older adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-26 Risk factors

    ABR latencies, rather than amplitudes, showed significant associations with regional gray matter volumes.

  3. Relationships Among Hearing, Auditory Processing, and Cognition: A Study of Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Audiology research 2026-08-07 Risk factors

    DSI emerged as a significant predictor across both MoCA and CBB, surpassing the predictive power of both types of PTAs.

  4. Crossmodal plasticity effects of hearing loss and ageing in the human auditory cortex

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-06-10 Risk factors

    Crossmodal plasticity refers to the phenomenon by which typical sensory areas respond to stimulation in other sensory modalities when their main input is absent or reduced.

  5. Age-Related Speech-in-Noise Hearing Loss in Parkinson’s Disease and APOE E4 Carriers

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-06-09 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss is a leading modifiable risk factor for dementia and is increasingly recognized as a non-motor feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD).

  6. Alzheimer disease β-amyloid pathology accelerates age-related hearing loss: evidence from App NL-F “knock-in” mice

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-05-28 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is a main acquired risk factor for dementia, including Alzheimer disease (AD), but links are unknown.

  7. Loneliness as a Pathway Linking Hearing Decline to Cognitive Aging: Longitudinal and Genetic Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-04-18 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss is linked to loneliness and poorer cognitive health, but it remains unclear whether loneliness helps explain associations between hearing difficulties and cognitive performance or dementia, and whether these patterns reflect causal pathways or shared underlying liability.

  8. Physiological, Histological, and Cognitive Characterization of a Rhesus Macaque Model of Presbycusis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-03-27 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), or presbycusis, is one of the most prevalent sensory deficits in older adults and has been increasingly implicated in cognitive decline and dementia.

  9. Hearing Loss as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Dementia

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-03-18 Risk factors

    This study evaluated hearing loss (HL) as a potential early indicator of dementia.

  10. Multi-site MRI analysis of morphometric differences in brain regions in the presence of hearing loss and tinnitus across the adult lifespan

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-03-10 Risk factors

    The impact of age and hearing loss on the brain has garnered significant attention, as both factors have been implicated in the development of cognitive impairment or dementia.

  11. Introduction to Supplement Issue: Sensory loss in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2026-02-05 Risk factors

    Sensory impairments (e.g., decreased function in hearing, vision, olfaction, and other senses) may be risk factors for or early markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD).

  12. Hearing loss, plasma neurodegenerative biomarkers, and cognitive function: Independent and additive effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-09-17 Biomarkers

    BackgroundHearing loss is one of the most prominent modifiable risk factors for dementia, accounting for one of the largest population-attributable risk among midlife exposures according to the Lancet Commission on Dementia.

  13. Association of midlife hearing impairment and hearing aid use with incident dementia: analysis of two UK-based longitudinal cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature aging 2025-07-01 Risk factors

    The prevalence of hearing impairment and dementia increases with age but the nature of their association remains unclear.

  14. Trends and mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and hearing impairment: A 20-year perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2025-06-09 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and hearing loss (HL) are major age-related public health challenges with emerging evidence suggesting their interconnection.

  15. Hearing Loss and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences 2025 Risk factors

    Several studies have been done to investigate the role of hearing loss (HL) in cognitive decline.

  16. Assessment of sensory impairment in older adults with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of otology 2024-11-15 Risk factors

    Patients with dementia had significantly worse hearing at almost all frequencies tested and significantly greater olfactory impairment than cognitively normal controls.

  17. [Senses and dementia : sensory loss and dementia risk]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Revue medicale de Liege 2024-11 Risk factors

    In the course of several neurodegenerative conditions, the presence of a sensory alteration, even before the appearance of cognitive disorders or complaints concerning autonomy, can potentially lead to earlier diagnosis and more efficient management of these complex patients.

  18. Relationship between hearing impairment and dementia and cognitive function: a Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-10-09 Risk factors

    Genetically determined CSHL was associated with an elevated risk of DLB (odds ratio [OR] 1.69; 95% CI 1.08 to 2.63; P = 0.021) and FTD (OR 1.66; 1.04 to 2.67; P = 0.035), but not AD (P = 0.958).

  19. Peripheral hearing loss at age 70 predicts brain atrophy and associated cognitive change

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2024-08-16 Risk factors

    111 out of 287 participants had hearing impairment.

  20. Hearing Screening for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Journal of audiology & otology 2024-07-09 Risk factors

    Electrophysiological and behavioral tests demonstrated strong correlation and accurate hearing impairment detection compared to PTA.

  21. Adult-onset hearing loss and incident cognitive impairment and dementia - A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 89 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2024-05-23 Risk factors

    We identified fifty studies (N=1,548,754).

  22. Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in the Aging Population: Emerging Perspectives in Audiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Audiology research 2024-05-23 Risk factors

    In this perspective article, the author explores the connections between hearing loss, central auditory processing, and cognitive decline, offering insights into the complex dynamics at play.

  23. Risk of dementia with hearing impairment and social isolation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024-05-16 Risk factors

    The combined hearing impairment and isolation with lack of conversation (hazard ratio: 1.69, 95% confidence interval: 1.09-2.61) and non-hearing impairment and isolation with lack of conversation (hazard ratio: 1.60, 95% confidence: 1.07-2.39) were associated with the development of dementia.

  24. Hidden dangers: Does multisensory impairments accompanying visual impairment increase dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Journal of psychiatric research 2024-04-23 Risk factors

    Subjects experiencing multisensory impairments concurrent with visual impairment demonstrated a negative association with cognitive function.

  25. Hearing loss promotes Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Nature aging 2024-04 Risk factors

    Epidemiological studies reveal a correlation between hearing loss and the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the underlying causal mechanisms remain unclear.

  26. Cognitive change in prevalent and incident hearing loss: The Maastricht Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-01-18 Risk factors

    Participants with prevalent and incident HL showed a faster decline in verbal memory, information processing speed, and executive function than participants without HL.

  27. Enablers and Barriers to Hearing aid Use in People Living With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2024-01-18 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is highly prevalent in dementia; however, people with dementia are less likely to use hearing aids consistently than people with intact cognition are.

  28. Impact of Concurrent Visual and Hearing Impairment on Incident Alzheimer's Disease: The LIFE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Risk factors

    Among 14,186 participants, we identified 1,194 (8.4%) who developed AD over a median follow-up period of 22.6 months.

  29. Dementia and Hearing Aid Use and Cessation: A National Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. American journal of audiology 2023-09-15 Risk factors

    Of 1,310 older adults who reported hearing loss (25% 80-84 years, 51% women, 74% White), 22% with dementia and 57% baseline hearing aid use.

  30. Hearing loss and its link to cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in dementia 2023-06-15 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is an important risk factor for the development of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  31. Sensory impairment and beta-amyloid deposition in the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-04-30 Risk factors

    The combinations of hearing and proprioceptive impairment and hearing, vision, and proprioceptive impairment, were positively correlated with cDVR (β = 0.087 and p = 0.036, β = 0.110 and p = 0.018, respectively).

  32. Sensory impairment and algorithmic classification of early cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-04-14 Risk factors

    Cross-sectionally, participants with ≥3 SI had twice the prevalence of ECI (prevalence ratio = 2.10, p = 0.02).

  33. Inclusion of hearing and vision impairments in cognitive training interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2023-02-20 Risk factors

    Among the 130 articles included in the review, 103 were cognitive training interventions (79%) and 27 were multimodal interventions (21%).

  34. Association Between Sensory Impairment and Dementia: The Roles of Social Network and Leisure Activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk factors

    Dual impairment, but not single impairment in hearing and vision was associated with a higher risk of dementia (HR: 1.62, 95% CI: 1.16 to 2.27).

  35. Understanding the Association Between Sensory Impairment and Dementia: Toward Informing Future Research and Health Policy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk factors

    Recent epidemiological research has linked decline in multiple sensory functions with an increased risk of dementia.

  36. Sensory Loss and Risk of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry 2022-09-28 Risk factors

    Sensory loss in olfaction, vision, and hearing is a risk factor for dementia, but the reasons for this are unclear.

  37. Cognitive and behavioral effects of hearing loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery 2022-07-05 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is one of the largest modifiable risk factors for developing dementia, accounting for up to 9% of the overall modifiable risk.

  38. Self-reported hearing loss, hearing aid use, and cognitive function among U.S. older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. International journal of population studies 2022-06-16 Risk factors

    There has been increasing attention to the role of hearing loss as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

  39. Association of Visual, Hearing, and Dual Sensory Impairment With Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-06-14 Risk factors

    Among 113,511 participants (mean age: 56.8 ± 8.09 years, female: 54.4%), a total number of 1,135 (1.00%) cases of incident dementia were identified during a median follow up period of 11.1 years [interquartile range (IQR): 10.9-11.4 years].

  40. Alterations to cognitive abilities and functional networks in rats post broad-band intense noise exposure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2022-05-11 Brain scans and imaging

    This study aimed to investigate the alterations of cognition and functional connectivity post noise, and find the progress and neural substrates of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL)-associated cognitive impairment.

  41. The Laterality of Early Age-Related Hearing Loss and Brain β-Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology 2022-03-01 Risk factors

    Mean age ± standard deviation was 64.3 ± 3.5 years.

  42. Hearing Loss and Cognition: What We Know and Where We Need to Go

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-02-28 Risk factors

    Although a causal association remains to be determined, epidemiologic evidence suggests an association between hearing loss and increased risk of dementia.

  43. Early Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Accelerates Presbycusis Altering Aging Processes in the Cochlea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-02-07 Risk factors

    Several studies identified hearing loss as a risk factor for aging-related processes, including neurodegenerative diseases, as dementia and age-related hearing loss (ARHL).

  44. Assessment of hearing and vision impairment in cohort studies collecting cognitive data in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-02-01 Risk factors

    Investigators/staff from 85 (of 192 cohorts) responded; 6 (7%) excluded participants with severe impairment; 80 (94%) measured hearing and/or vision impairment, while 5 (6%) measured neither.

  45. Hearing loss and brain disorders: A review of multiple pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) 2021-12-15 Risk factors

    Several causative factors are associated with hearing loss (HL) and brain disorders.

  46. Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment: Epidemiology, Common Pathophysiological Findings, and Treatment Considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2021-10-17 Risk factors

    In recent years, there has been increasing research interest in the correlation between hearing impairment and cognitive decline, two conditions that have demonstrated a strong association.

  47. Self-reported dual sensory impairment, dementia, and functional limitations in Medicare beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-09-03 Risk factors

    Overall, 7124 participants representative of Medicare beneficiaries 65 years or older were included.

  48. Hearing Loss and Dementia: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-07-08 Risk factors

    Fourteen cohorts including 726,900 participants were analyzed.

  49. Factors Associated With Hearing Aid Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2021-06-23 Risk factors

    Overall, 5,146 participants were included.

  50. Sensorineural hearing loss may lead to dementia-related pathological changes in hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2021-05-31 Risk factors

    Presbycusis contributes to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

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