Scientists Kept an Inner Ear Alive Outside the Body for the First Time

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

New imaging method links inner ear fluid levels to severity of hearing loss

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been modified to collect images of the inner ear. "These findings are exciting ...
Healthline

Are Tinnitus and Vertigo Related?

Tinnitus and vertigo are common, but they don’t always go together. Concurrent tinnitus and vertigo can sometimes occur due to underlying conditions that affect your inner ear. Tinnitus and vertigo ...
Science Daily

Inner ear has a need for speed

Scientists and engineers have modeled a hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain. The sensory organs that allow us to walk, dance and turn ...
Popular Science

Extinct ape’s inner ear holds clues to how humans learned to walk upright

New 3D scans of a six-million-year-old Lufengpithecus' skull fossil clarify a potential evolutionary step towards bipedal locomotion. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 29, 2024 11:32 AM EST Get the ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask the doctors: Managing vertigo from inner ear fluid buildup

Dear Doctors: I recently experienced severe vertigo due to fluid in my inner ear from a sinus infection. It affected not only my balance, but also my blood pressure and anxiety. Are there any ...