The nerve is made up of the neuronal projections that connect the hair cells with the brain and is called the eighth nerve because it is one of 12 nerves that come off the brain in the skull. The ...

Top: Rows of healthy sensory hair cells in the mouse inner ear with green stereocilia arcs. Middle: In Rest mutant mice, hair cells are disorganized, and stereocilia barely visible. Bottom ...

The brain may play a role in helping the ear regulate its sensitivity to sound and compensate for hearing loss by sending a ...

The function of the outer hair cell in hearing is now perceived as that of a cochlear amplifier that refines the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of the mechanical vibrations of the cochlea.

Once sound waves enter the cochlea, they become surface waves that travel along the cochlea's hair-lined basilar membrane. "Each pure tone rings at one point along this spiral organ," said Asheesh ...

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 ...

Nerve fibers help regulate sound sensitivity in the inner ear, aiding in hearing loss compensation and reducing discomfort.