Because of the aging human population and increased numbers of surgical procedures
being performed, there is a growing number of biomedical devices being implanted each …

Background Hearing impairment that is too severe to be adequately treated with
conventional hearing aids can lead, in children, to severe developmental disturbances of …

Mice lacking the vesicular glutamate transporter-3 (VGLUT3) are congenitally deaf due to
loss of glutamate release at the inner hair cell afferent synapse. Cochlear delivery of …

Objectives This investigation evaluated the effect of cochlear implant (CI) electrode length
on speech comprehension in quiet and noise and compare the results with those of EAS …

Present-day cochlear implants demonstrate remarkable speech understanding performance
despite the use of non-optimized coding strategies concerning the transmission of tonal …

Amazing progress has been made in providing useful hearing to hearing-impaired
individuals using cochlear implants, but challenges remain. One such challenge is …

Electrical stimulation to manipulate the central nervous system (CNS) has been applied as
early as the 1750s to produce visual sensations of light. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) …

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the degree of hearing preservation (HP)
and its relation to electrode array length after cochlear implantation using different thin …

Objective: This study reviewed outcomes of hearing preservation (HP) surgery in a cochlear
implant patient population, with clinical follow-up results up to 11 years after implantation …

Aim To record cochlear responses to acoustic stimulation (electrocochleography) directly
from a cochlear implant (CI) in awake recipients with residual hearing, using an adaptation …