The Cochlear implant functions by bypassing damaged parts of the ear to directly stimulate the auditory nerve.

The likelihood of someone getting a cochlear implant often comes down to one factor: age. Two children for every one adult receive the insurance funding necessary to cover the $40,000 operation. The ...

There are two main types of low-frequency hearing loss: Sensorineural low-frequency hearing loss is caused by damage to the hair cells, your cochlea, or your auditory nerve. Conductive low-frequency ...

A brain aneurysm coil fills the aneurysm with platinum coils to help form a blood clot, sealing it off and lowering the risk of rupture. Brain aneurysms are weak spots in blood vessel walls that ...

The cochlear nerve, also known as the acoustic or auditory nerve, is the cranial nerve responsible for hearing. It travels from the cochlea in the inner ear to the brainstem as part of the eighth ...

The internal part involves placing electrodes on the cochlea, while the external part has a microphone and a transmitter coil. But what’s the cochlea? It is a hollow bone in the inner ear ...

Tiny electronic implants have already transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK, from pacemakers that control heart conditions to cochlear implants that improve hearing.

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The number of TMC1 per stereocilium tip varies from four to twenty depending on the cochlear localization, mirroring the high degree of variability we observed for PCDH15. It is also possible that a ...