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 ...

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 ...