Technology

You might know that a cochlear implant sends electrical signals to the cochlea, but have you ever wondered where they go from there? They go straight into the brain! How the Brain Hears As we’ve shown in our post showing pictures of the cochlea, the cochlea is filled with thousands of nerve cells. Each of these cells

Editor’s note: Thanks for having fun with us on our April Fools announcement. Of course, there really was no CI surgery in space. But until that does happen, we’ll be here giving you even more (real) hearing implant news and facts, guest articles, and tips and tricks from here on Earth. Today, for the first

What are Assistive Listening Devices? The answer is easy: it’s a device that helps a hearing implant recipient to hear certain sounds by connecting directly with the audio processor as opposed to using the built-in microphone. Find out more about assistive listening devices in this article.

Here at The MED-EL Blog we’ve talked a lot about cochlear implants, but there’s far more to hearing implants than just CIs. Another type of hearing implant is a middle ear implant–but what’s a middle ear implant all about, and how does it work? The Middle Ear As the name suggests, a middle ear implant is implanted