A new type of medical treatment has helped a toddler who was born deaf to be able to hear without a hearing aid ...

Opal Sandy, who is 18 months old, has auditory neuropathy, a condition caused by a faulty gene. The condition means the ear ...

Hearing (or auditory) disabilities are usually defined by a decreased ability or total inability to hear (deafness). Individuals who are hard of hearing, or don’t hear well, and individuals who are ...

Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American and TASE: LCTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing allogeneic cell therapies for unmet medical needs, today reported that preclinical ...

And coronaviruses can cause peripheral neuropathy, damage to the nerves that carry information to and from the brain. It is possible, in theory, that COVID-19 could cause auditory neuropathy, a ...

Otoferlin deficiency is the leading genetic cause of auditory neuropathy in newborns, for whom there are no pharmaceutical options and cochlear implants are the only treatment available.

Alcoholic neuropathy is a condition in which drinking too much alcohol causes damage to nerve tissue. This may cause pain, tingling, and numbing in your limbs. Alcoholism, now called alcohol use ...

Our lab is interested in understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying peripheral auditory neuropathy. We utilize transgenic mouse models and a variety of cutting edge molecular, ...

“For example, auditory neuropathy, a hearing disorder where the cochlea is functioning but transmission along the auditory nerve to the brain is impaired could be a feature.” We already know that ...

Autonomic neuropathy is nerve damage that affects your automatic body functions — the things your body does whether you think about them or not. When you have this kind of damage, which can be ...

We demonstrated that transplanted cells can graft into an animal model of auditory neuropathy, and elicit functional recovery as measured by auditory brainstem thresholds. In an integrative ...

The loss of auditory nerve cells can lead to auditory neuropathy, even when hair cells and the cochlear nucleus remain intact. A cell-based therapy designed to replace lost or dysfunctional auditory ...