Cochlear implants represent a transformative approach to restoring auditory perception in individuals with severe to profound hearing loss. These devices function by bypassing damaged hair cells and ...

Stéphane F. Maison, PhD, CCC-A, an investigator at Mass Eye and Ear's Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, and clinical director of the Tinnitus Center at Mass Eye and Ear. “Beyond the nuisance of having ...

When our ears are exposed to very loud sounds, such as the blast of a firecracker, too much of a neurotransmitter is released, damaging these auditory nerve cells and causing hearing loss. Researchers ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --People with persistent ringing in their ears, or tinnitus, are suffering from auditory nerve loss that goes undetected in standard hearing tests, a new U.S. study has found. The ...

USA: A new cohort study presents a reliable and scalable method to evaluate auditory nerve function and peripheral neural plasticity in vivo across the lifespan. The results emphasize that early ...

Last month, I reported on a growing body of evidence showing that longer exhalations are an easy way to hack your vagus nerve, reduce fight-flight-or-freeze stress responses, and improve heart rate ...

The ABI is very similar to a cochlear implant in its pieces-parts, but differs in some important ways in its placement. A little bit of an anatomy lesson is necessary to understand why a cochlear ...

A new study outlines how gene therapy could reverse hearing loss and deafness. This may be music to the ears of the roughly 300,000 patients across the globe that depend on cochlear implants to hear.

A single application of the novel compound AC102 almost completely restores noise-induced hearing loss in preclinical models. This is the key finding of a recent publication in the Proceedings of the ...

Matthew Xu-Friedman receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders. A student who conducted some of the work described, Tenzin ...