URMC / Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience / NeURoscience Blog / July 2019 July 2019 URMC Research Tool Unlocks Natural History of Batten Disease URMC researchers have compiled decades of patient data and developed a highly sensitive rating scale that has provided a detailed picture of Batten disease. Identical Levels of Hearing Loss Can Have Different Effects The most common causes of hearing loss — age and excessive noise — have different effects on sound processing in the ear, reports a new study in The Journal of Neuroscience. Perfect Timing: Making the ‘Switch’ from Juvenile to Adult Very little is known about how the onset of puberty is controlled in humans, but the discovery of a new gene in the roundworm C. elegans could be the "missing link" that determines when it’s time to make this juvenile-to-adult transition.