Robert Traynor

Robert M. Traynor, Ed.D., is a hearing industry consultant, trainer, professor, conference speaker, practice manager and author. He is a founding member of HHTM and had previously written a regular weekly column for the site for many years. He has decades of experience teaching courses and training clinicians within the field of audiology with specific emphasis in hearing and tinnitus rehabilitation. He serves as Adjunct Faculty in Audiology at the University of Florida, University of Northern Colorado, University of Colorado and The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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Best of Hearing International: Mozart’s Ear

Dear Readers: I am out on vacation this week but will be back with another all new post for Hearing International on April 1, 2015. Here’s a post from a previous week that was popular. It is well known that Mozart had an ear for music. (Enjoy The Best of Mozart at YouTube.) What is not so

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Chemotherapy and Audiology 2015

Learning the effects of chemotherapy medications and the proper procedure for monitoring ototoxicity during cancer treatment can be a good way for an audiology practice to differentiate itself from other practices in the area. Due to our practice’s new relationship with a local cancer treatment center, we have encountered numerous cases of ototoxicity from cancer treatment in our clinic. McKeage (1995)

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The Cochlea’s Biological Clock

Occasionally at Hearing International we receive comments and corrections from readers. Thanks to Dr. Roelof A. Hut, Associate Professor of Chronobiology at of the University of Groningen, Netherlands this article has been updated correcting some inaccuracies and misstatements. The reader is directed to the updated version published May 17 2016. Many thanks from Hearing International to Dr. Hut for his comments. In the

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Binaural Beats – What are They?

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, born in 1803 in Liegnitz, Prussia (now Poland) during the tumultuous Napoleonic Wars, hailed from a prosperous family with a background in pharmacy and commerce. Despite his family’s lineage, Heinrich’s health issues propelled him towards an academic path, diverting him from the family profession. As a student at the University of Breslau in 1821, Heinrich displayed an

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And…..The Flies Have it!

Have you ever tried to sneak up on a fly? It’s impossible as they seem to have a sixth sense for knowing when to fly away just before you swat them with a newspaper. It’s a difficult task to rid yourself of these pests as you wander aimlessly around the room swatting and missing, swatting and missing. How do they

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Gene Therapy For Hearing Loss

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 5% of the world’s population, roughly 360 million people, including 328 million adults and 32 million children, have disabling hearing loss, which refers to hearing loss greater than 40dB in the better hearing ear in adults and greater than 30dB in the better hearing ear in children. WHO tells us that most of these

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New Generation Aminoglycosides?

A great advancement in medication was made on October 19, 1943 in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University by Albert Schatz, a graduate student. Waksman and his laboratory discovered several antibiotics, including actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin, fradicin, candicidin, candidin, and others. Two of these, streptomycin and neomycin, found extensive application in the treatment of numerous infectious diseases. Streptomycin, however, was

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Sir Charles and His Journey to Discover a Palsy – Part 2: From Expressions to Palsy

Charles Bell left his position as a surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and, in 1804, moved with his brother John to London, where they set up a private school of surgery and anatomy. While John did not have to deal with the jealousy and arguments with his Edinburgh colleagues, Scottish medical people were not very highly thought of in London at the time so he

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Sir Charles and His Journey to Discover a Palsy – Part 1: The Family

Well known for his industry, determination and eloquence John Bell (1676-1708), was a Presbyterian minister who presided over the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland upon the death of William III (1650-1702). His son, William Bell (1704-1779), left the Presbyterians and became quite well known in the Scottish Episcopal Church at a time when it was under many restrictions and persecutions by

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HIV/AIDS Now Correlated with Hearing Loss

Recently, there have been published reports of a correlation between HIV/AIDS and hearing loss. HIV/AIDS is a topic that is not discussed enough in today’s audiological circles, perhaps because its incidence has been decreasing in most developed nations. However, HIV/AIDS remains a serious problem, and continues to be a pandemic in some parts of the world. Sidibé (2012) in his United Nations HIV/AIDS