In a move sure to encourage youth everywhere to keep their amps cranked up… to eleven, scientists working on a cochlear implant have developed a device that can actually help “reverse the death and ...

Discover how cochlear implants are revolutionizing hearing restoration for adults, enhancing communication and quality of ...

Cochlear implantation has become an established intervention for sensorineural hearing loss, yet its application in patients with congenital inner ear anomalies poses unique challenges. Malformations ...

Most cochlear nerves carry information from the cochlea to the brain, but about 5% send signals in the opposite direction: from the brain to the cochlea. The exact role of those fibers has been a ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

Nyxoah has raised another €15 million (about $17 million) in equity financing to help commercialize its nerve stimulation treatment for sleep apnea. The lion’s share of the round was put up by the ...

People who are deaf might be able to regain most of their hearing one day, thanks to a new treatment that uses a cochlear implant to deliver genetic instructions to fix their auditory nerves, new ...

Researchers at Uppsala University have created the first 3D map of the hearing nerve showing where the various sound frequencies are captured. Using what is known as synchrotron X-ray imaging, they ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...