Cochlear implantation is a safe and effective treatment option for patients with far advanced otosclerosis (FAO) who have not benefitted from stapedectomy, report US researchers. The technique should ...

Listen up: MIT researchers have developed a new signal-processing chip that could be used for future cochlear implants that would recharge wirelessly. (Courtesy ...

Cochlear implants—medical devices that electrically stimulate the auditory nerve—have granted at least limited hearing to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who otherwise would be totally deaf.

It is widely thought that otoacoustic emissions—sounds generated by the cochlea—propagate along the basilar membrane as backward-traveling waves to the middle ear and become acoustic emissions in the ...

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world depend on cochlear implants to hear. However, existing versions of these types of implants -- which electrically stimulate the auditory nerve -- ...

Discover how cochlear implants work to combat hearing loss and learn about the remarkable journey from sound to brain interpretation. It’s hard to imagine what Count Alessandro Volta was thinking in ...

Cochlear implants — medical devices that electrically stimulate the auditory nerve — have granted at least limited hearing to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who otherwise would be totally ...