A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that ...

Mild to severe hearing loss is a common problem prompted by age, certain underlying health conditions and prolonged exposure ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo.

There are five sensory epithelia in the balance portion of the inner ear (one for each of the three semicircular canals and two in a chamber where the three canals come together). The nerve fibers ...

Iram Ahmad: Inside your middle ear is the nerve that moves the muscles of your face. Narrator: Aka the facial nerve. And if it becomes inflamed or injured, say, from a nasty ear infection ...

Several studies that had examined the inner ears of deaf people shortly after they died demonstrated ... or the frequency selectivity that could be measured from individual nerve fibers. Shortly after ...

Ears "Your ears have a lot of nerve endings ... adding that the skin is loaded with nerve endings. Touching the inner thighs is also arousing because they're so close to your genitals, which ...

The cochlea is a snail-shaped structure in the inner ear. In the cochlea, there are nerve cells with thousands of miniature hairs attached to them. These hairs help convert the sound wave ...

Hearing is essential for connecting with others, yet hearing loss is a common issue, affecting about 15.5% of Americans.