Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --People with persistent ringing in their ears, or tinnitus, are suffering from auditory nerve loss that goes undetected in standard hearing tests, a new U.S. study has found. The ...

Kumbuka is getting national attention after Nemours Children’s Hospital ENT and Audiology team performed an Auditory Brainstem Response test, which measures the hearing nerve’s response to sounds.

An acoustic neuroma (sometimes called a neurolemmoma or schwannoma) is a benign (non-cancerous) tissue growth on the eighth cranial nerve leading from the brain to the inner ear. This nerve has two ...

Hearing tests can be classified into two main types: diagnostic and screening. Screening tests that employ pure tone audiometry via basic air conduction are utilized to rapidly assess whether more ...