Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: One of the key discoveries was the confirmation that mammalian hearing operates near a criticality known as a Hopf bifurcation—a turning point that ...

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. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons are helping to pioneer a trend that extends the advantages and benefits of minimally invasive surgery to patients who need middle ear surgery. Head and neck ...

The inner ear contains the sensory systems of balance and hearing. Its location is close to the center of the skull and it is encased in the hardest bones in the body which make it one of the best ...

A labyrinthectomy is a surgery to remove the labyrinth in the ear. The labyrinth is a structure that usually helps with balance. A doctor may recommend a labyrinthectomy if an issue with the labyrinth ...

A recent study published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery finds that two common and treatable causes of conductive ...

Does hearing surgery prevent dementia? New research shows that treating eardrum perforations and cholesteatoma reduces the ...