Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is the most prevalent form of permanent hearing loss, affecting over 6% of the global ...

Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an ...

Recent investigations have elucidated key aspects of cochlear nonlinearity, revealing how outer hair cell electromotility directly influences basilar membrane dynamics.

I first began to go deaf several years ago when I developed Meniere’s disease, which damaged my inner ear and affected my ...

We encounter many kinds of noise everywhere we go. Depending on sound levels and duration of exposure, some noise can affect hearing long-term. In fact, noise exposure is one of the most common ...

A 5-year-old born with bilateral microtia had a priceless reaction when she received a new cochlear hearing implant, the ...

Nerve-related hearing loss, medically termed sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), occurs when damage affects the inner ear's delicate hair cells, the auditory nerve, or the brain's sound-processing ...

Severance Hospital recently achieved 3,000 cases of auditory implant surgery. The process by which a person hears sounds goes ...

Tweens and teens are at high risk because they spend so much time using headphones or earbuds for gaming, listening to music ...

The theory is that damage to some of the cochlea hair cells or their nerve fibres means there is weaker input into the brain at those frequencies. In response, the receiving brain cells get turned ...