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.

When it comes to the cochlea, a family of proteins called neurotrophins can regenerate auditory nerve endings, but administering treatment -- either by drug or viral-based gene therapy -- can lead ...

Cochlear implants work by converting sounds into electrical signals that are sent directly to the auditory nerve, bypassing the outer and middle ear.

You might have heard of the cochlear implant. It’s an electronic device also referred to as a neuroprosthesis, serving as a bionic replacement for the human ear. These implants have brought a… ...

Gene therapy stimulated cochlear nerve growth (top) in deaf guinea pigs, compared to measurements taken before treatment (below). Credit: UNSW Australia Translational Neuroscience Facility, Jeremy ...

Cochlear implants can help people who are deaf and hard of hearing perceive sound, but they could potentially be improved by using light instead of electricity to stimulate nerves in the cochlea, a ...

In experiments on deaf guinea pigs, researchers found that the new technique, which uses cochlear implants to deliver DNA directly to the nerves, restored the animals' hearing to a near-normal ...

Technical Terms Cochlear Implant (CI): A device that provides a sense of sound to individuals with severe hearing loss by directly stimulating the auditory nerve.

Regenerating nerves and cells in the inner ear to boost cochlear implant performance has long been a goal of auditory scientists. “This clever approach is the most promising to date,” says ...

He's curious, and he definitely enjoys it." Grayson Clamp was born without his cochlear nerves, or the auditory nerve that carries the sound signal from the cochlea in the inner ear to the brain.

image: Ear membrane and auditory nerve in the cochlea. The octave bands have been given different colours. Humans can perceive frequencies from 20 Hz (the top of the coil) to 20,000 Hz (the base ...