http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/beethoven-how-does-a-musician-cope-with-hearing-loss/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 22:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/beethoven-how-does-a-musician-cope-with-hearing-loss/#comment-324734 Anwen Greenaway Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:36:58 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=32728#comment-324734 Hello Callum, From talking to Michael Berkeley I understand that the background of musical knowledge he has from his training means that the brain knows what it should be hearing and that helps it to learn to compensate. Listening to music which is familiar from before the hearing problem started also helps, as it all teaches the brain how it should compensate. Michael Berkeley is very keen people should know about the problem so that it might help avoid someone else suffering the same thing: if a common cold migrates to the ear it needs treating very quickly with steroids if the hearing is to be saved, and surprisingly few doctors are aware of that. Hello Callum,
From talking to Michael Berkeley I understand that the background of musical knowledge he has from his training means that the brain knows what it should be hearing and that helps it to learn to compensate. Listening to music which is familiar from before the hearing problem started also helps, as it all teaches the brain how it should compensate. Michael Berkeley is very keen people should know about the problem so that it might help avoid someone else suffering the same thing: if a common cold migrates to the ear it needs treating very quickly with steroids if the hearing is to be saved, and surprisingly few doctors are aware of that.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/beethoven-how-does-a-musician-cope-with-hearing-loss/#comment-323925 Callum Hackett Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:54:49 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=32728#comment-323925 That's fascinating - just to be clear, are you saying that because your brain knows how a Haydn quartet, for example, should sound, that by listening to it your brain makes the necessary compensations which leads to hearing improvement in general? That’s fascinating – just to be clear, are you saying that because your brain knows how a Haydn quartet, for example, should sound, that by listening to it your brain makes the necessary compensations which leads to hearing improvement in general?

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