ear pressure, dizziness, pain, and frequent ear infections. Acoustic neuromas are noncancerous tumors that develop on a ...

Changes in air pressure occur during air travel ... Meniere’s disease is an inner ear disorder that causes severe dizziness, or vertigo, tinnitus, and ear congestion. The symptoms of Meniere ...

Elevated blood pressure, or hypertension, can affect blood flow to the inner ear. The small blood vessels in the inner ear ...

Body sway is measured as the pressure of the outer ear canal is changed. This test is sometimes used to evaluate the possibility of a perilymph fistula (an abnormal opening in the inner ear leading to ...

A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that using "a unique sound stimulation technology"-a device that stimulates the ...

Scientists have made a major leap in ear imaging by using terahertz radiation to see inside the cochlea – an impossibly tiny, ...

Increasing evidence has suggested that stimulating the part of the inner ear associated with balance ... tone at 100 Hz with daily exposable sound pressure levels may improve motion sickness ...

Millions of years ago marine animals had hearing organs that allowed them to detect sounds in the water. When land dwelling animals evolved they now had to detect environmental sounds that traveled ...

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

It can occur in the outer, middle, or inner ear. Hearing loss typically occurs gradually over time. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) reports that about ...