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Elevated workplace or environmental noise can cause hearing impairment, tinnitus, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance, and sleep disturbance. [ 3][ 4] Changes in the immune system and birth defects have been also attributed to noise exposure. [ 5] Although age-related health effects ( presbycusis) occur naturally with age, [ 6] in ...
Kelly Ripa “As early as I can remember, certain sounds of eating bothered me,” Kelly revealed during a 2012 interview on ABC’s 20/20. “The sounds of people chewing gum can really enrage me.”
Selective auditory attention. Selective auditory attention, or selective hearing, is a process of the auditory system where an individual selects or focuses on certain stimuli for auditory information processing while other stimuli are disregarded. [ 1] This selection is very important as the processing and memory capabilities for humans have a ...
An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, [ 1] is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. While experiencing an auditory hallucination, the affected person hears a sound or sounds that did not come from the natural environment. A common form of auditory hallucination involves hearing one or more voices ...
Misophonia. Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome, sound-rage) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues. These cues, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses that are not ...
Noise-cancelling headphones are headphones that suppress unwanted ambient sounds using Active noise control ( ANC ). Active noise cancellation makes it possible to listen to audio content without raising the volume excessively. In the aviation environment, noise-cancelling headphones increase the signal-to-noise ratio significantly more than ...
None; harmless [ 3] Sleep paralysis is a state, during waking up or falling asleep, in which a person is conscious but in a complete state of full-body paralysis. [ 1][ 2] During an episode, the person may hallucinate (hear, feel, or see things that are not there), which often results in fear. [ 1][ 3] Episodes generally last no more than a few ...
The issue is not just curtailing phone use in bed, but phone use at night. That means redesigning your routine, particularly if you use your phone as a way to decompress. It helps to create ...