Another important aspect of CI research is the relationship between the auditory nerve's health and the performance of cochlear implants. Recent studies have utilized electrically evoked compound ...

These electrical signals are transmitted to the internal portion of the cochlear implant, stimulating the auditory nerve. The auditory nerve relays this signal to the brain, where it’s heard as ...

Most cochlear nerves carry information from the cochlea to the brain, but about 5% send signals in the opposite direction: from the brain to the cochlea. The exact role of those fibers has been a ...

This delay, Martin adds, might in part arise because the electrical ... the researchers next plan to test vagus nerve stimulation in rodents with cochlear implants to see if it improves their ...

The busy MUSC Health Cochlear Implant Program is about to launch another clinical trial. This one will test a device that has ...

This results in excitation of the corresponding hair cells and the generation of a cochlear nerve impulse. Thus, the hair cells play a major role in the conversion of mechanical (acoustic ...