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 ...

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 ...

Next, the researchers genetically altered mice to disable the nerves carrying information from the inner ear to the brain ...

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

It describes the anatomy of the human ear, how sound is transmitted and perceived, and the range of frequencies the ear can detect. The film also discusses the impact of distance on sound quality ...

Ear congestion related to sinusitis or viral infections, such as a cold or flu, will typically go away once the underlying condition or cause of inflammation resolves. However, if middle ear fluid ...

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 ...