Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ...

The surgery consists of making a pathway for the implant into the inner ear, which passes through the mastoid bone behind the ear. We generally insert the implant through a natural orifice in your ...

One rare but serious risk of cochlear implants is meningitis. The risk for meningitis may be higher because the implant creates a pathway from the outer ear to the inner ear, which is normally ...

But in mice with genetic hearing loss, cochlear function increased, indicating that the brain was enhancing the cochlea's sensitivity as a response to long-term hearing loss. Measuring cochlear ...

Quiñones et al, The medial olivocochlear efferent pathway potentiates cochlear amplification in response to hearing loss, The ...