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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In a move sure to encourage youth everywhere to keep their amps cranked up… to eleven, scientists working on a cochlear implant have developed a device that can actually help “reverse the ...

Cochlear implants use up to 22 platinum electrodes to stimulate the auditory nerve; the devices make a tremendous difference for people but they restore only a fraction of normal hearing.

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.

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...