Implant surgery may also be tailored to individual cochlear anatomy and individual goals. The electrode length can now be calculated using specialized software, and placing the electrode deeper ...

A cochlear implant may benefit those with severe hearing loss. Implanted in the cochlea, it has many advantages, but there are also drawbacks. The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear.

Two Tucson patients participated in a clinical trial to receive Acclaim, the nation’s first fully implanted cochlear implant ...

Research: Rehabilitation of human hearing with a totally implantable cochlear implant: a feasibility study. Image Credit: decade3d - anatomy online / Shutterstock Scientists have developed a ...

The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is useful for those whose cochlear nerve is too damaged ... scaled to macaque anatomy, for the analysis of auditory perception evoked by electrical stimulation ...

Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? Could light one day be used to restore hearing? To try to answer that question, a team of German ...

That same technology is now being employed in a cochlear implant that is in clinical trials ... hearing device that uses the ear's natural anatomy, including the ear drum, with sound coming ...

Cochlear implants, tiny electronic devices that can ... is that the frequency response of the sensor is influenced by the anatomy of the ear we are experimenting on, because the umbo moves ...

I'm wearing hearing aids or I'm wearing a cochlear implant: it means that I'm old'. So a lot of patients are very resistant to wanting to do something about their hearing loss," says Dr. Mary Rose ...

That's why thousands of hearing loss patients have turned to the doctors and researchers of the Cochlear Implant Program at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City. Dr. Bruce Gantz pioneered ...

They turned to the talented doctors and researchers of the Cochlear Implant Program at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City. Nile received his cochlear implant when he was just 2 years ago.