New nerve cell connections on sensory cells in mice could be at fault Conventional wisdom has long blamed age-related hearing loss almost entirely on the death of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, ...

In another new UAB study, 15 minutes of stimulation before a 45-minute session with a physical therapist made lasting ...

The vagus nerve is called the "wandering nerve" because it's the longest nerve in the human body and travels from the base of the brain up into the ears and down into the lower intestines. In recent ...

"It's easier to put your elbow in your ear" is a time-tested way to describe the impossibility of any given task. But the route to easing knee pain might indeed wend through the ear, a new study says.

Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) enables earlier intraoperative monitoring of facial nerve activity than sevoflurane anesthesia during ear surgery, with reduced patient-ventilator dyssynchrony and ...

Kosaku Aoyagi, PT, Ph.D. (right), an assistant professor of physical therapy and movement sciences in the College of Health Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, and his team are exploring ...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. It is late at ...