The brain may play a role in helping the ear regulate its sensitivity to sound and compensate for hearing loss by sending a signal to a structure in the inner ear known as the cochlea, according to a ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, US, led by Calvin Kersbergen report that mice with the most common form of human congenital deafness develop normal auditory circuitry – until the ear canal ...

Norrie disease is a rare, recessive, X-linked, genetic disorder. The devastating disease, caused by a mutation in the NDP gene, manifests as blindness at birth followed by progressive hearing loss ...