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 ...

As a treatment, they applied gentle electrical pulses to the outer ears of the mice in order to stimulate the vagus nerve. The researchers used the treatment, called transcutaneous auricular vagus ...

Several studies that had examined the inner ears of deaf people shortly after they died demonstrated that outer hair cells were required for ... selectivity that could be measured from individual ...

It consists of the outer ear (the auricle and auditory canal), the ... of the cochlea and vestibular organs), the auditory nerve, the auditory cortex and other brain areas involved in sound ...