The energy of the electrochemical potential in the guinea pig cochlea is harvested and used to power a wireless transmitter. Endocochlear potential (EP) is a battery-like electrochemical gradient ...

In a study of human ear tissues, scientists have demonstrated that age-related hearing loss is mainly caused by damage to hair cells. Their research challenges the prevailing view of the last 60 ...

The Xu-Friedman lab studies the cellular basis of these changes, focusing on auditory nerve synapses that relay sound information to the brain. Students working in the lab gain hands-on experience in ...

Deafness genes. Progress in identifying genes involved in deafness has been remarkable over the past few years. At the end of 1996, no non-syndromic deafness genes had been cloned 1.In the 4 years ...

Age-related hearing loss is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults; about one in three people in the United States between the ages of 65 and 74 has hearing loss, and nearly half ...