Before cochlear implant surgery, you may want to know what to expect in terms of hearing improvement. Learn how surgery works ...

According to Tomatis, the right ear sends three-fifths of the fibers of its auditory nerve to the left hemisphere, and two-fifths go to the right hemisphere. Similarly, the left ear sends three ...

It’s permanent loss caused by damage to your auditory nerve or the cilia, which are tiny hairlike cells in your inner ear. Meniere’s disease can cause sensorineural hearing loss. Less common ...

RNID explains: ‘Instead of making the sound louder, like a hearing aid, implants use electrical signals to directly stimulate the auditory nerve (the nerve that carries sound from the cochlea to the ...

Two regions in the left hemisphere of the brain, which are crucial for language, are different in people who are good at ...

A five-month-old baby in New Delhi undergoes successful cochlear implant surgery, becoming the youngest recipient in India.