When we hear sounds, specialized cells in the cochlear nucleus are the first to process that information, enabling our brains to understand speech ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Oregon Health & Science University have now been able to do just ...

Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? Could light one day be used to restore hearing? To try to answer that question, a team of German ...