While most newborn jaundice cases are harmless, experts warn that untreated severe jaundice may lead to rare but serious complications like hearing loss and delayed speech.

All 10 participants in this trial showed improvements in hearing within the first month of receiving the gene therapy, which delivered healthy copies of the OTOF gene.

NFL super-agent Leigh Steinberg opens up about the brain trauma crisis in football and his mission to protect athletes ...

A world-first study reveals an acoustic interaction between plants and insects. In the study, the team focused on female ...

Two lateral striatal subregions integrate the acquisition of stimulus-based decision-making in spatiotemporally and functionally different manners, challenging the prior model through a dominance ...

This study offers important insights into the development of infants' responses to music based on the exploration of EEG neural auditory responses and video-based movement analysis. The convincing ...

Pain isn't just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a ...

An important point raised by Belin and Zatorre is how the human posterior auditory cortex might figure into a dorsal ‘where’ pathway, because it is obviously also involved in speech perception.

For the first time, scientists using cryo-electron microscopy have discovered the structure and shape of key receptors connecting neurons in the brain's cerebellum, which is located behind the ...

It results from damage to sensory hair cells in the inner ear or to the auditory nerve pathways that transmit sound to the brain. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.