The ability to analyze how the inner ear works could help provide better therapies, especially for sensorineural hearing loss ...

image: Left: The organ of Corti from a normal (control) mouse. The hair cells and their support cells are lined up in an alternating, checkerboard-like pattern. Right: The organ of Corti from a nectin ...

For the first two weeks of life, mice with a hereditary form of deafness have nearly normal neural activity in the auditory system, according to a new study. Previous studies indicate that this early ...

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study of about 50 people with Alzheimer's disease has added to evidence that damage to the inner ear system that controls balance is a major factor in patients' ...

An inner ear infection may be a significant cause of COVID-19-associated problems with hearing and balance, according to researchers. In a new study published last month in the journal Nature ...