The brain may play a role in helping the ear regulate its sensitivity to sound and compensate for hearing loss by sending a signal to a structure in the inner ear known as the cochlea, according to a ...

For decades, medical science has treated hearing loss as an inevitability of ageing or trauma. While animals like birds and fish can effortlessly regenerate the delicate sensory cells and nerves ...

An auditory brainstem implant converts sound into an electrical signal and sends it to the brainstem, so your brain can create the sense of sound. An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a treatment ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been modified to collect images of the inner ear. "These findings are exciting ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School are one step closer to restoring sensorineural hearing loss through cell reprogramming and regeneration. If successful, this biotechnology would address a ...

The Hills alum Lo Bosworth is opening up about her recovery after undergoing inner ear surgery. “I had surgery on my inner ear yesterday and the recovery has not been as easy as I thought it was going ...