Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a highly prevalent sensory disorder globally, affecting over 1.5 billion people, with a ...

Ultrasonic hearing and vocalization are the physiological mechanisms controlling echolocation used in hunting and navigation by microbats and bottleneck dolphins and for social communication by mice ...

To hear a sound, auditory signals travel through a person’s ear, where they are transformed into vibrations that swirl through fluid in the cochlea, a spiral, snail-like structure in the inner ear.

Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...

Irreversible hearing loss can be age-related, congenital, or acquired during childhood and is due to the inability of the cochlear sensory epithelium to replace hair cells. Transplantation of ...

Combining magnetic properties relied on in traditional Chinese medicine with contemporary knowledge about the gut microbiome, researchers have developed a novel oral treatment to prevent and repair ...

Research team awarded five-year, $3.2 million grant from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders AHL is among the most common health conditions affecting older adults, ...

For those born with certain types of congenital deafness, the cochlear implant has been a positive and enabling technology.

The company’s iotaSOFT surgical robot for cochlear implantation can now be used for performing this procedure in patients as ...