Sensorineural hearing loss occurs after damage to the inner ear, called the cochlea, or the nerve pathways from the inner ear to the brain.
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Analysis of the bony support structures in its inner ear membranes, along with other measurements of the inner ear, indicate that this ancient sea creature had ultrasonic hearing capabilities.
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For Kiera Chaplin, the Sahara struck deep within her inner ear.
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Unfortunately, the test showed my inner ear was most likely fine.
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I am highly sensitive to its affect (sic) on my inner ear.
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"The energy travels into your inner ear and the cochlea," Metzger tweeted.
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Those bones beat out a rhythm on the fluid-filled inner ear.
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Calcium crystals in the inner ear look like a boulder-strewn panorama.
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The Seattle-based biotech hopes to treat sensorineural diseases in the inner ear.
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But earwax isn't the only part of your inner ear that keeps you healthy.
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Inner-ear biology is extremely complicated and one reason why progress has been slow.
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The Boston-based therapeutics company is focused on creating treatments for inner-ear disorders.
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Gravity allows the inner ear crystals that have shifted to float back into place.
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There was thunder like the snapping of the bones of some massive inner ear.
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Sutures, nasal turbinates, inner ear bones, sinus cavities, real teeth, pathology, natural imperfections, etc.
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The answer has to do with how sounds are perceived by the inner ear.
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They have a button that presses a wrist point that affects inner ear balance.
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Respiratory and ear infections, for example, can sometimes lead to inner ear inflammation called labyrinthitis.
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All that precision means, for one, removing less bone to get to the inner ear.
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He was placed on the disabled list on June 20 with an inner-ear infection.
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In spite of the negative results, doctors still believed I had an inner ear problem.
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It came from the base of a skull, and deep inside was the inner ear.
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These cells lie within a spiral organ in the inner ear known as the cochlea.
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Sochi 2014 gold medalist Yarnold has reportedly been suffering from inner-ear problems affecting her balance.
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Why that's important: these inner ear hair cells absorb sound and convert it to electrical impulses.
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Basically, all of your inner-ear / equilibrium sensors start sending warning signals because everything seems askew.
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Bone-conduction headphones essentially work by vibrating sound through your skull and into your inner ear.
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Little Foot's inner ear provided insight not only about her hearing, but her sense of balance.
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The bud design looks akin to the AirPods, which rest gently outside of your inner ear.
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Inner ear tinnitus may be caused by injuries to the cochlea due to loud noise or inflammation.
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And avoid reading, watching television and texting — all can throw off inner ear balance, Dr. Derebery said.
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Blue ink added to the peninsular forms of "The labyrinth of the inner ear," renders them solid.
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It also uses "special bone conduction technology" to disseminate sound through your forehead and into your inner ear.
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The cancer attacked the young boy's cranial nerve, inner ear and temporal bone, the Des Moines Register reported.
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The organs of balance and your inner ear immediately sense there's no gravity pulling down on them anymore.
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The make-up of the inner ear indicated Timurlengia, like T. rex, excelled at hearing lower frequency sounds.
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The technique, which we're calling "lobe strobe," includes highlighting your outer and inner ear, tragus, and/or lobe.
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She currently has four piercings in one ear, including two cartilage piercings, and one near her inner ear.
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They're about on par with custom-molded in-ear headphones, albeit with less penetration into the inner ear.
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But with these technological perks, like X-Ray vision and instant inner-ear translation, come a major drawback.
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According to the latest research, one culprit may be pain-sensing nerve fibers deep within the inner ear.
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By examining the Echo Hunter's inner ear, the researchers found evidence of its ability to receive ultrasonic frequencies.
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DNA was found in ten individuals, particularly in the inner ear bones that preserved it over the millennia.
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It's caused by loose particles of calcified debris rattling around in the semicircular canal of the inner ear.
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It was only in the mid-1800s that scientists began to understand what the inner ear even did.
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He agonized over the accuracy of his inner ear, was not in fact certain he even possessed one.
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The ability to balance depends on the formation of tiny crystals of calcium carbonate in the inner ear.
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Nura uses OAE (otoacoustic emission) using a microphone to listen to the faint sounds returning from the inner ear.
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To fully understand this apparent deafness, the team studied the frogs' inner ear tissues and created three-dimensional models.
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Essentially, our vestibular system or inner ear is our gyroscope that tracks the angle of the head and body.
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Tinnitus can also be a symptom of Meniere's disease, a disorder of the balance mechanism in the inner ear.
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It changes the blood's density, causing the inner ear to change shape and the three-dimensional matrix to deform.
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Speaking of balance, there's one other incredibly important structure you can find inside your inner ear: the vestibular system.
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"Sharks have an auditory system much like ours, with an inner ear canal that can interpret sounds," Wynne said.
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She reports that, in August 1994, Gianni was diagnosed with inner-ear cancer and underwent chemotherapy until late 1995.
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It turned out he did not have a concussion; he had an inner-ear infection that affected his balance.
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Another part of the inner ear, a thin, bony structure within the cochlea, provided further evidence of the ability.
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She insisted she was fine, and we chalked it up to inner-ear problems, which she'd had for years.
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About 90 percent of hearing loss is "sensorineural," usually caused by damage to hair cells in the inner ear.
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G-Vectoring is an imperceptible piece of black art technology that your inner ear probably won't pick up on.
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For cruises, she suggested getting a prescription for a transdermal scopolamine patch, which keeps the inner ear in balance.
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Waves travel from the air through the chain of our hearing systems, traversing the outer, middle and inner ear.
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Not a standard inner ear infection; this was a painful red swollen outer ear, in an 18-year-old.
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And so there's this weird thing in your inner ear, which is basically a kind of biological orientation sensor.
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The three scientists discussed inner ear "cavitation," damaging implosions of blood bubbles caused by focused sound waves, as an explanation.
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Second, encourage your child to take breaks every hour to allow the hair cells in the inner ear to rest.
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I'd eventually find out my vestibular system — the communication lines between the brain, inner ear and body — had been damaged.
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Bob Langer, a renowned biomedical engineer at MIT, had teamed up with peer Jeffrey Karp of Harvard Medical school on research showing that cells in the inner ear — they're called progenitor cells, and each of us is born with a fixed number of them — could potentially be manipulated to create new inner ear cells.
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Caused by the movement within the inner ear of calcified crystals, BPPV's symptoms result in brief but intense sensations of vertigo.
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If someone uses the Bluetooth camera to take a picture of their inner ear, the phone will show them their diagnosis.
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The most common injury was dizziness, the study found, and 100% of the diplomats bore signs of an inner ear injury.
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I had the kind that go in your inner ear, other people had the big ones that go over the ear.
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Because the inner ear plays a role in maintaining balance, it's possible Timurlengia was more agile than its prey and competitors.
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The plan was to study how the frog's inner-ear systems — which are sensitive to gravity and movement — change in microgravity.
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Just remember that a single flying elbow, misplaced knee, or lapse in inner-ear balance can ruin the fun for everyone.
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Inside the inner ear are the "hair cells" that detect sound waves and transform them into signals our brains can understand.
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The orientation of the inner ear also suggests that Sarmientosaurus typically held its head pointing downward at a 45-degree angle.
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The drugs would then diffuse through a membrane into the inner ear—the same technique is used to treat ear infections.
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As hearing declines with age, the cochlea, the part of the inner ear that receives and transmits sound, sustains irreversible damage.
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In September, a biopsy revealed he had rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer that attacked his temporal bone and inner ear, rendering it inoperable.
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Problems in the inner ear — where head position is perceived — are the most common cause of nystagmus, usually accompanied by vertigo.
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Currently, several biotechnology companies are developing novel drug therapies that promise to actually repair inner-ear damage and restore normal hearing.
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Scouring the wax away, while addictively enjoyable, can damage the fragile bones of the inner-ear, rupture eardrums, and invite ear infections.
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For example, sensitive structures in the inner ear vibrate when you move, sending signals to the brain that you are in motion.
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The researchers used CT scans to look inside Timurlengia's braincase and digitally reconstruct its brain, sinuses, nerves, blood vessels and inner ear.
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"When you speak, the vibrations directly vibrate the bones of your skull, and the vibrations go into the inner ear," Hartley explains.
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There are a few drugs that do this by targeting receptors that stimulate the nerve from our inner ear to the brain.
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Boston 3B Pablo Sandoval (inner ear infection) is 6-for-23 with three RBIs in a rehab assignment with Triple-A Pawtucket.
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These whales were able to detect high-frequency echoes by sensing vibrations first through the mandible, and then in the inner ear.
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The back part of the swim bladder works like an ear drum and, again, helps transmit sound waves to the inner ear.
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Bipedalism is easy for humans, but a challenge for mechanical friends, requiring, as it does, strength, balance, and an infallible inner-ear.
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There are no inner ear issues either, as you're not actually experiencing any pressure, although you do wear earplugs under the helmet.
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Instead of just counting reps, the headphones track your heartbeat in BPM by measuring through your inner ear with a biometric sensor.
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The bone that surrounds the inner ear turns out to be the best place in the body to search for ancient DNA.
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Otoconia can dissolve, or vestibular dark cells, which exist only in the inner ear and help to regulate homeostasis, can absorb them.
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The most violent his dad ever got, my fiancé told me, was while he was recovering from a painful inner ear surgery.
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Studies show that auditory signals are transmitted from the cochlea, in the inner ear, to a brain structure called the dorsal cochlear nucleus.
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Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo is a glandular disorder that originates in the inner ear, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
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If you&aposre exposed to high-frequency sounds for an extended period of time, then you may damage tissues in your inner ear.
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Jamil says she was born with congenital hearing loss and labyrinthitis, inflammation of the inner ear, which she had several surgeries to correct.
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The technology is called Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), and it uses strategically-placed electrodes to trick a user's inner-ear into perceiving motion.
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But the study said the patients had inner ear damage and showed "objective signs" that their symptoms were not caused by mass hysteria.
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"You need drugs that will help block or reduce information going into the inner ear that signals movement to the brain," Feldman says.
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The rare cancer had spread to his skull and to several bones in his inner ear as well as tumors on his hips.
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The researchers were able to use these cells to create functioning pieces of the inner ear, chock full of hair cells and neurons.
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"Anybody that's had any inner-ear problems, it just doesn't go like a 24-hour flu or something," manager Dusty Baker said Tuesday.
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Mariah was suspicious and got on stage 4 minutes early to test things out, and she couldn't hear anything in her inner ear.
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"But infrasound, that can stimulate the movement of the membranes in the inner ear and produce that feeling of vertigo, nausea," he said.
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And our brain is used to as we move our head, you experience the orientation change of your head through your inner ear.
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"Properly fitted ear plugs make the sound that enters the inner ear less loud," Derebery, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly described how alcohol influences the balance system in the inner ear, as pointed out by commenters.
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On the other hand, they leave your eardrums open to surrounding noises because they deliver sound vibrations to the inner ear through your cheekbones.
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It compiled symptoms that ranged from ringing ears to foggy thinking to dizziness, all signs of inner ear damage, to come to this conclusion.
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Ultrasound, which is too high-pitched for us to hear, "can't stimulate the inner ear in a way that would cause damage," Oxenham said.
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In principle, other senses could also be restored: optogenetic stimulation of cells in the inner ear of mice has been used to control hearing.
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This is called a lateral line, and it's made of tiny organs that detect motion and also transmit sound vibrations to the inner ear.
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It also had very large eye sockets, suggesting better-than-average eyesight, and an inner ear structure that appears tuned to low-frequency sounds.
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It was not until Power visited specialists in Miami the following week that the concussion was ruled out and the inner-ear problem detected.
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In orbit, your body starts to not listen to your inner ear because it's searching for gravity and there's really no gravity up there.
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"In the past five years, there's been an explosion of biotech companies getting serious about the inner ear for the first time," he continued.
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Then Hayward received a cochlear implant, a device that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear, which would give the couple their communication back.
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Inner ear issues aside, the five-minute ride was nearly theme park quality, even with the resolution and comfort limitations of modern mobile VR headsets.
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Using computed tomography, the researchers were able to peer inside the pterosaur's braincase in three dimensions, observing the interior of the skull and inner ear.
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For the wearer of such kit, the effect would be to provide a visual response that corresponds to the movements the inner ear is detecting.
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Power missed the first race of this season due to an inner ear illness, and that left him behind the competition in terms of points.
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Many people rely on cochlear, or inner ear implants, which directly stimulate the hearing nerve and use an external sound processor to help people hear.
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The band recorded their third album, Frame & Canvas, at the famed Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, with Jawbox's J. Robbins in December of 1997.
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Free-floating stones cause the inner ear to give faulty information to the brain about our position in space, creating a false sensation of motion.
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Because other conditions can mimic the symptoms of B.P.P.V., such as inner ear infections, migraine, multiple sclerosis and stroke, diagnosis by a doctor is essential.
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Mr. Lathrop said the unease happens when there's a disconnect between the signals sent to your brain from your inner ear and what you're seeing.
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"The act of suction helps to keep babies' Eustachian tubes open, which keeps the pressure between the cabin and the inner ear equalized," she said.
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In past cases, doctors have also seen a stifled sneeze cause sinus problems, middle and inner ear damage, ear infections and a ruptured ear drum.
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Deep presence includes the sensations of motion from your inner ear; if the two are out of sync with what you see, you get motion sickness.
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"If you apply these signals at the wrong time you can potentially generate a brain instead of an inner ear," study author Karl Koehler told Gizmodo.
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But an unlucky few experienced damage to their ear drum, hearing bones, or inner ear that led to dizziness, problems with balance, and irreversible hearing loss.
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From that point on, sounds ranging from the hum of a lawnmower to normal tones of conversation caused a piercing, jabbing pain in his inner ear.
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The infection ultimately damaged each man's inner ear, including their vestibular system, which also happens to be the system that is mainly responsible for motion sickness.
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They also say there were 8 monitors on stage amplifying sound, so even without an inner ear, Mariah should have been able to hear just fine.
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"It was the right time and the right place, with people from the inner-ear biology world and the drug development world coming together," he said.
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The treatment stimulated the regeneration of hair cells in the inner ear; these cells detect soundwaves and translate them into nerve signals, allowing us to hear.
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Ryan thinks that eons ago, the ancestor of all these species probably evolved an inner ear tuned to roughly 2,200 hertz for some long-abandoned purpose.
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He was born, in the suburbs outside Philadelphia, without a right ear — he has microtia and atresia, meaning he's missing both an outer and inner ear.
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I got the inner ear of a whale there a few years back, and a four-horned antelope skull that was found in India in 1890.
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Most of them can manage with hearing aids and cochlear implants — electrodes that transmit vibrations from sound into the inner ear, restoring at least partial hearing.
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Talking to Hain and Foster, two seasoned veterans of the vestibular system, I was struck by how much mystery they still see in the inner ear.
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But when it's off, what's happening is what you see, your vision, disagrees with what your head feels, and, in particular, what your inner ear senses.
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But whether it's the sound of chickens or my beautiful voice, it all enters your ear through the cochlea, a shell-like structure in the inner ear.
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The waves of atmospheric pressure are the same for everyone; but past that, every inner ear and every brain are doing something just a little bit different.
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University of Manchester researchers discovered that a tiny organ in the inner ear (called the sacculus) is connected to a part of your brain that registers pleasure.
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Those sounds, which affect the inner ear, are meant to make you drowsy by simulating the same sleepiness associated with prolonged motion — a condition called Sopite Syndrome.
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Previously, Beaudet studied the endocast of Little Foot, or the imprint of the brain preserved on the inside of the skull, along with her inner ear structure.
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These "linked room" works exploited psychoacoustic effects that she pioneered: A foyer might hit the spectator with high-pitched tones meant to excite strange inner-ear responses.
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The risk for sensorineural hearing loss, the type linked to problems in the nerves of the inner ear, was 82 percent higher in those deficient in iron.
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Many people live with inner ear damage, which can be triggered by untreated or severe infections, like vestibular neuritis, or certain types of ototoxic antibiotics, like gentamicin.
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"The key to recovering from motion sickness within minutes is to look toward the movement that's happening, because doing so will reorient your inner ear," she said.
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That's because presbycusis is most commonly caused by gradual changes in the inner ear, including the wear and tear to the hair cells brought on by noise.
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Though the exact mechanism is unclear, the researchers hypothesize that rocking activates motion-sensitive neurons in the inner ear, which then leads to modulation of brain activity.
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Motion sickness occurs when your brain gets conflicting reports about perceived motion from the inner ear and eyes, which each experience a ride in a moving vehicle differently.
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For animals with strict diets who will notice something extra being put in their food, oil can also be absorbed through the dog's inner ear or the gums.
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The issue surrounds what is called microsurgery, in particular, installing cochlear implants, tiny devices that relay sound directly to the inner ear of someone with a hearing impairment.
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If you are otherwise healthy but have severe flu symptoms — a high and persistent fever, shortness of breath, chest pain, or inner ear pain — go to the doctor.
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Animal ears may not get as much attention as cool eyes or weird noses, but the glorious cheetah owes its running prowess in part to its inner ear.
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Stefan Heller, a professor of otolaryngology at Stanford University, is figuring out how to revert inner ear cells to their earlier, functional state in order to restore hearing.
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Vertigo occurs when these stones break off and move from the body of the inner ear into its semicircular canals, which determine our perception of three-dimensional space.
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I have no one to whom I can explain what happens when I finally turn my hearing aids on — now the tremble of the inner ear is relentless.
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Numerous lab studies show pesticides damaging the inner ear in people and animals, for example, as well as in studies of Brazilian field workers exposed to high doses.
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It was previously identified in the inner ear, or vestibular system, of mice, humans and many other creatures, where it is required for developing a sense of balance.
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Surgery for acoustic neuroma typically is performed under anesthesia, and "involves removing the tumor through the inner ear or through a window in [the] skull," according to Mayo Clinic.
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These vibrations cause the fluid inside your cochlea (inner ear) to move and this in turn activates your hair cells, which then sends the signal to your auditory nerve.
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The bit passes just half a millimeter from the facial nerve, and another half a millimeter from the taste nerve, before entering the spiraling cochlea of the inner ear.
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Yes, you're making it extremely hard for me, because your armpit hair is brushing up against my upper lip, and you're blowing a whistle directly into my inner ear.
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The team have adapted an otoacoustic emissions test, which measures the sounds created by the inner ear when the cochlea responds to sound, and put it inside the headphones.
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One of the major problems is the mismatch between the visual perception of motion given by the VR headset and the inner ear telling you that you're standing still.
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New research, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests this is because the cheetah's inner ear (the part inside, which we don't see) is unique among large cats.
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But inside, the headset is sending motion signals to your brain via your inner ear so you feel like you're moving with the images you're experiencing in virtual reality.
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Instead of sticking these headphones in your ear, they send vibrations through your inner ear to your brain, so you can listen to music without drowning out your surroundings.
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Ms. Schubert said the reason was medical: He was in isolation at an avian center after treatment for lead poisoning, a vitamin B deficiency and an inner ear problem.
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Cochlear implants bypass the usual hearing process by embedding a device in the inner ear and connecting it via electrodes to the nerve that sends audio signals to the brain.
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These pulses create sound waves that ring the head for a few milliseconds, conducted to the inner ear by bone conduction, often leading the person to hear a soft click.
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In this case, it's the reverse situation — your eyes are perceiving motion and telling the brain that you are moving, but your body and inner ear do not sense movement.
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Hearing depends on sensitive hairs in the inner ear that translate sound waves into signals our brains hear as noise, and hearing loss is triggered by damage to those hairs.
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Shortly after birth, Caruso was diagnosed with bilateral moderate to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss, a common type of permanent hearing loss that stems from damage to the inner ear.
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Experiences where you are given a cockpit, steering wheel or even a nose can usually eliminate this feeling because your brain and inner ear can match up these incongruous feelings.
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Sound is a vibration, and bone-conducting headphones use speakers or tiny motors to send vibrations directly to the top of your jaw and into your inner ear and brain.
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Motion sickness is a due to a conflict between visual information and perceptions of the sense of balance in your inner ear, and symptoms include nausea, dizziness, fatigue and vomiting.
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I've been experimenting a lot with vestibular implants for virtual reality—being able to stimulate the inner ear in a way that allows you to feel a sense of motion.
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Thirteen of the 25 women recruited into the program passed the punishing physical exams, which included sensory deprivation and a vertigo-inducing shot of ice water into the inner ear.
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The doctor suspected either benign positional vertigo (dizziness caused by a small piece of bonelike calcium stuck in the inner ear) or Ménière's disease (which leads to dizziness from pressure).
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These mutations cause the death of so-called hair cells in the inner ear, which convert mechanical vibrations like sound waves into nerve signals that the brain interprets as hearing.
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Noticing that the cells of the inner ear (the cochlea) express some of the same surface proteins, the team began exploring whether a similar approach could work in the ear.
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So far, 26 Americans have been affected with similar maladies, according to the State Department, and doctors who examined some of the Americans said they had suffered inner-ear damage.
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In order to develop drugs to accurately target either the auditory nerve or hair cells, Decibel's researchers delve into the anatomy of the inner ear, down to the cellular level.
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Auris Medical, a Swiss biopharmaceutical firm, is in advanced clinical development of drugs to treat inner-ear hearing loss and tinnitus, the condition of ringing or buzzing in the ears.
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It arises when tiny calcium particles in the inner ear become dislodged from the balance organ and get stuck in the semicircular canal, where "they cause havoc," Dr. Kerber explained.
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While there's speculation that infrasound might be able to vibrate the body's organs or inner ear to cause pain, vertigo, and nausea, "These are things that haven't been proven," Jauchem says.
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"The main goal is to get your eyesight correlated with what's going on in your inner ear and your body so there aren't conflicting signals going to the brain," Feldman says.
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Due to the shape of some people's inner ear, the headphones simply don't fit every possible ear shape well, or in some cases, cause pain when placed firmly inside the ear.
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A processor captures sound, which is converted into electrical signals and sent to an electrode in the inner ear, stimulating the cochlear nerve so that sound is heard in the brain.
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Analysis of its braincase and inner ear shows that it existed in an kind of intermediate state during the pterosaurs era, and that it was still adapting to the air.[PeerJ]
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The liquid simulates the angle of the horizon and its movements, so your inner ear and eyes detect the same experience, even while reading a book or looking at your phone.
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Other problems include issues with the inner ear or nerve deafness, impaired ability of the ear to conduct sound or structural problems with the eardrum or bones in the middle ear.
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Space is known to make people motion sick and mess with their sense of balance; NASA wanted to study these effects in frogs, which have similar inner-ear structures to humans.
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They do know it stems in part from sensory conflict, like discord between visual input to the brain and signals sent from the parts of the inner ear responsible for balance.
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This includes vision and hearing as well as sensors in the inner ear that relay information to your brain about your body's orientation and movement in space (more on this below).
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These individuals sometimes use special devices called bone anchored hearing aids, which transmit sound through bone vibration directly through the cochlea (the inner ear), rather than through the outer and middle ears.
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Between the noise reduction and the proximity to your delicate inner ear, IEMs can deliver a lot of detail t that's frequently lost in big fat headphones that sit on your ear.
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This made the men perfect test subjects for a space program that was trying to understand what might happen to people in places where the inner ear can't sense up and down.
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The headphones "tricks" your inner ear into feeling like you're moving while in VR. Likelihood I'd use it: I'd wear it once, open the rollercoaster app on a dare, and regret everything.
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But when your ears are flooded under water, sound waves completely bypass your ears and penetrate directly into the bones in your skull, which then transfers the vibrations to your inner ear.
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There's also the lingering problem of "VR sickness," which can arise for a minority of players when the simulation differs too sharply with what your inner ear thinks your body is doing.
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Frequency's initial focus is on sensorineural hearing loss, the most common type of hearing loss, which is caused by damage to the fine hairs in the inner ear that sense sound waves.
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Jonas Oppenheimer, a technician in the lab of David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard, sandblasts an ancient skull fragment to find the cochlea, or inner ear, the area likeliest to retain DNA.
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Face up and staring at the faraway ceiling, I tried to keep still, but I was too busy worrying about my inner ear, which I feared was slowly filling with pool water.
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"I could demonstrate that the shape of the inner ear was compatible with activities in the trees and the ground, which is confirmed by our new study of the atlas," Beaudet said.
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But dizziness is a problem with the vestibular system, which is the sensory system that collects data from the eyes, inner ear and muscles to help us keep our balance and posture.
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These ancient organs in the inner ear, made up of tiny crystals of chalk embedded in a gelatinous membrane, normally tell the brain where it is in relation to Earth's gravitational field.
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One theory for why people get sick from virtual reality is that the conflict of sensory information leads to all sorts of nasty effects—your eyes perceive movement, but your inner ear doesn't.
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How you experience your place in the physical world is determined by your eyes and your vestibular system, which is primarily composed of a complex series of bone structures in your inner ear.
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They saw distinct differences including the size of part of its inner ear canal, which they say suggests this particular ape species was likely more comfortable on the ground than in the trees.
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But a CT scan of the braincase showed that the shape of the brain was similar to that of the later tyrannosaurs, and that the inner ear structure was tuned to low frequencies.
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It wasn't an effect like that of Amacher's signature works, and inner ear tones didn't shoot out of a listener's head: "Adjacencies" was written more than a decade before her psychoacoustic leap forward.
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Make the input too credible, though, and you run into a different problem—the contrast between what a user's eyes are seeing and what the motion-sensors in his inner ear are detecting.
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He said that there might be variation in our perception given that, within the two pathways Professor Hartmann outlined, there were more nuanced ways for sounds to be perceived by the inner ear.
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This involves the use of bone conduction technology, which allows you to hear sounds through the vibration of bones in your face, bypassing the outer and middle ears to stimulate the inner ear directly.
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That's because Bahnmueller suffers from hearing loss so severe that a year ago he underwent surgery to install a cochlear implant—an electronic device in the inner ear that replaces the usual hearing mechanism.
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"The repetition of loud sound exposures and repeated injury to the inner ear can ultimately result in permanent damage, and permanent hearing loss, for which there is no cure," Le Prell said by email.
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When there's a discrepancy between visual, vestibular (what's happening in your inner ear), and proprioceptive (where your body is in space) stimuli, your brain can't keep up, and you may feel sick, she says.
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Although the transplant was intended to replace her external ear, which plays a relatively small role in hearing compared with the inner ear, the treatment did help her regain the ability to hear sound.
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Add a moving vehicle to the mix — like when you're trying to use VR to space out as the passenger on a roadtrip — and your inner ear is getting all kinds of mixed signals.
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According to new research published in the journal Science, the animal's especially well-preserved inner ear bone enabled scientists to sequence and publish its complete genome, which is a first for ancient dog specimens.
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For instance, the dinosaur's skull was a lot smaller than the T. rex, but its inner ear was larger and more robust than that of all the other dinosaurs at the time, Brusatte says.
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He bought a hands-free bone conduction headset from eBay (which transfers the sound vibrations from the bones outside your ear, to the inner ear), and took apart the casing to reveal the electronics.
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Exercise may protect against hearing loss by improving blood flow to the cochlea, the snail-shaped structure in the inner ear that converts sound waves into nerve signals that are sent to the brain.
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Meanwhile, restrained virtual reality systems disrupt some of an animal's senses—for example, if the animal's eyes detect movement, but their inner ear doesn't (because the movement is simulated), the experiment doesn't work as well.
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That means your body is trying to process the visual, vestibular (what's happening in your inner ear), and proprioceptive (how your body is in space) stimuli that you're experiencing — but they don't quite match up.
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The transducers vibrate as music plays, much like a driver inside of an earbud does, except this vibration makes its way to your inner ear by taking an alternate route through your skin and bones.
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The earliest medical exams of 25 US diplomats in Cuba reporting dizziness, foggy thinking, and related injuries suggest they all had inner ear damage possibly caused by noise or pressure, according to a new study.
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Elephant ears are so large not only because they funnel sound into the inner ear better, but because they can be used as fans to keep the elephants cool, scientist Joseph Soltis told Science Friday.
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Imagine her dismay when she needs to grab a Q-tip to delicately shape a stray eyeliner mark only to discover that her husband used them all to go probing for deep inner ear gunk.
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They're all engaging enough to distract you from the pressure building in your inner ear, but also calming enough to let you fall asleep — assuming you sort out where to prop your elbow, of course.
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It's a complex network of sensors in the inner ear that inform the brain how the head is rotating in time and space, as well as in what direction and how fast it is moving.
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"It enhances your immersion because not only are you seeing and anticipating how you would feel, but you actually feel the motion because the inner-ear is stimulated consistently with how you would expect," Cevette added.
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The idea is reasonably simple: as well as playing sound like normal headphones, the Entrims use galvanic vestibular stimulation, a process that sends a very low-voltage electric current into a nerve in your inner ear.
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The fossilized skull of the Echo Hunter, discovered in South Carolina about 15 years ago, was unusually well-preserved, allowing researchers to analyze its facial features and the physiology of its inner ear in great detail.
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B.P.P.V., as it's known, occurs when the tiny calcium carbonate crystals of your inner ear loosen and migrate into one of the semicircular canals, where their presence signals the brain that you're moving when you're not.
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"All three of those have to be used successfully to ride a bike," Dr. Hess said, with information coming in from different kinds of sensory receptors, in the eye, in the muscles, in the inner ear.
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While my body did not release terrorlike adrenaline jolts, the sustained barrage of throbbing vibrations in my inner ear — like driving at high speed in a car with the rear windows down — soon registered as pain.
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A minority of cases are brought on by viral infections (from Lyme to measles, rubella, even tuberculosis), a head and neck tumor, circulatory problems, autoimmune diseases (like Lupus), or an inner ear disorder (like Ménière's disease).
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"Use of earplugs will prevent damage to cells in the inner ear, and prevent temporary changes in hearing," said Colleen Le Prell, a researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas who wasn't involved in the study.
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Motion sickness typically occurs when only one or two of those centers (usually the inner ear) sense you are moving, Rosenman says, and the other(s) do not — so there's a mismatch in communication to the brain.
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"People often get it from reading in the car because their eyes are focusing on a steady thing, the book, but the inner ear senses motion, so your brain gets confused and you feel sick," Rosenman says.
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San Francisco has won seven of its last nine after going 4-2 on its road trip but it's unclear if Cueto will make another start before the break as he deals with an inner-ear infection.
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The base of your thumb, which is a particularly strong and multidirectional connection, but also prone to arthritis, is a saddle joint; there are others in the body as well, in odd spots like the inner ear.
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No increased risk in glioma or meningioma tumors, while one (the British study) found a small increased risk of acoustic neuroma, the noncancerous tumor on the main nerve that leads from the inner ear to the brain.
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Dombrowski said discussions with the owner John Henry and Chairman Tom Werner had begun several weeks ago, about the time Sandoval began a rehabilitation assignment after an inner-ear infection had sent him to the disabled list.
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Although the reason for the association remains unknown, animal studies suggest that iron deficiency may reduce blood flow to the inner ear, affecting the cochlear ganglion, the group of nerve cells that transmit sound to the brain.
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When we started the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique 30 years ago, our aim was to see if we could actually reconstitute or reconfigure that imaginary orchestra that Beethoven had singing in his inner ear, but never truly heard.
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In fact, if there is a disconnect between the speed perceived by the eye and that of the inner ear, users could become nauseated, an issue that virtual reality designers must consider at every step of the process.
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He is blanketed in tiny animals no one can see, creatures more diverse than all the plants and animals in the visible world, protecting his skin and digesting his dinner and making a home of his inner ear.
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Although one or more drugs that might temporarily or permanently repair inner-ear damage and restore hearing loss is still several years away from commercial availability, Decibel's Cobb offered some sound advice on how to prevent hearing problems.
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Injury to the structures of the ear (auricle, ear canal, eardrum, hearing bones, inner ear) or central auditory system (auditory nerve, brainstem, cortex) will all affect hearing to various degrees depending on the nature and extent of the damage.
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"The eardrum essentially acts as a part of a pretty complex lever mechanism to allow sound to travel from the outer ear into the inner ear and through the middle ear, where there are ossicles -- small bones," Kasle explained.
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BOY&aposS CONCUSSION SYMPTOMS LEAD TO TUMOR DIAGNOSIS "In the more severe case, instead of the air rupturing the ear drum, it leads to rupture of the delicate structures of the inner ear causing permanent hearing loss," Sedaghat said.
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A hand-held probe was placed in Kumbuka's ear, sending a signal to the inner ear, with the hope that the ear would send a signal back, much like sonar, according to information provided by Nemours Children's Health System.
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B&O Play says that the actual earphone sits just outside the inner ear, which leads to a better long-wear experience and also allows for ambient noise to come through (so you can be aware of your surroundings).
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At the beginning of the crisis, C.I.A. and State Department doctors thought that the victims' symptoms—pain and ringing in the ears, dizziness, and cognitive problems—suggested damage to parts of the inner ear that control hearing and balance.
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Mr. Zeitlin, an inveterate piano innovator since the 1960s and a fusion pioneer, plays a variety of keyboards and synthesizers; he conjures a vague drone in the middle-to-low range, circling your inner ear with melodies and effects.
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The precise cause of sudden deafness is still mysterious, but researchers have two main theories: One is that a virus leads to an inflammatory response in the inner ear, and that inflammation stuns the sensory cells that enable hearing.
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Through the high-tech imaging, the team found that Moschops' skull formed a helmet around its most important soft, brainy bits including its brain, inner ear, and some of its facial nerves, with bone on the top reaching 15 centimeters thick.
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The Seetroën glasses have four liquid-filled rings that, thanks to gravity, simulate the angle and movements of the horizon so that the motions of the blue-dyed liquids seen by the wearer's eyes match what their inner ear is detecting.
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"Having a blockage cleared from my inner ear caused by the cholesteatoma," wrote Gunvalson, 56, sharing a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed beside her boyfriend Steve Lodge, who drove her to the medical office in Irvine, California.
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ENTy (the ENT stands for ear, nose, and throat — not the sentient trees) is a device and app that monitor balance and posture in real time, meant to help doctors diagnose and check up on inner ear problems like vertigo.
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"It does not seem imprudent to speculate that a highly specific unidentified energy exposure, perceived as a sound or pressure, could be producing an inner ear disturbance or demonstrate findings suggestive of a mild traumatic brain injury," the study concludes.
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So if you're on a boat and you go below deck where you can't see outside, then your eyes might tell your brain you aren't moving while your inner ear and body senses the rolling motions of the waves, Feldman says.
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Yoga instructor Mara Kroyer, of Perth, Australia, told the publication that her once-debilitating headaches have all but disappeared in the two months since getting the popular inner-ear piercing as a last-ditch effort to relieve her chronic pain.
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It's pretty much as insane and futuristic as it sounds: instead of having sound waves travel through your ear the boring way, bone-conduction headphones send vibrations to the top of your jaw and then through your inner ear and brain.
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It tightens the eardrum and functions as a filter so that the sounds get softer before they're perceived by the middle ear, a portion of the auditory system that leads the sound to the inner ear, where we actually hear.
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"The eardrum essentially acts as a part of a pretty complex lever mechanism to allow sound to travel from the outer ear into the inner ear and through the middle ear, where there are ossicles—small bones," Kasle told CNN.
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Now, instead of faffing around sending vibrations through the air like a damn clown, bone conduction headphones take a more direct route — sending vibrations straight into the top of your jaw and from there to your inner ear and brain.
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Those symptoms suggest the cause may involve the part of inner ear that controls balance as sounds in the auditory part of the spectrum do not result in symptoms consistent with those reported by US diplomats in Cuba, according to Jackler.
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The science behind the app is simple: sound causes the hair cells in the cochlea (the spiral-shaped cavity in the inner ear) to vibrate and send nerve signals to the brain, but the hair cells lose sensitivity over time.
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When he examined the túngara frog's family tree, he discovered that eight frog species closely related to the túngara also have inner ear organs sensitive to frequencies of about 2,200 hertz, yet none of them produce chucks in their mating call.
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Many choose to wear bone conduction headphones, which transmit sound vibrations through your skull bones directly to the inner ear, so their ears aren't blocked, and headsets with hand controls, so they don't have to fiddle directly with their phones.
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Overall, the breadth of symptoms from dizziness to failed eye-movement measures does seem to point to an inner ear injury of some kind, perhaps pointing to a concussion-like syndrome suggested by University of Pennsylvania researchers who had examined 21 of the diplomats.
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What's next: In an article accompanying the study, Urnov wrote that researchers would need to find an effective and specific enzyme for cutting DNA in human cells and a way to safely inject it in the human inner ear before testing the technique in primates.
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A paper published Thursday in the journal Current Biology reports that a 27-million-year-old fossil from a species named Echovenator sandersi, nicknamed Echo Hunter, had features in its inner ear indicating that it could hear sounds too high-pitched for the human ear.
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Source: Patent filings It helps because like seasickness, nausea in the car can happen when your eyes sense the environment as still, while your inner ear senses the twists and turns of the car ride, creating a sensory conflict, a professor told Scientific American.
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You don't have to understand the sensory labyrinth of the inner ear, where the organ of Corti turns sound to electrical signals and the otolith detects the head's movement, to find beauty in Cajal's maze of delicate lines and overlapping shapes of diverse textures.
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Travel Tips Motion sickness — an inner ear disorder that causes nausea, dizziness and even vomiting — is an unpleasant but common occurrence on car, boat and plane trips, says Dr. Jennifer Derebery, a physician at the House Clinic in Los Angeles who specializes in ear disorders.
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Motion sickness is caused by a conflict between signals arriving in the brain from the inner ear (which forms the base of the vestibular system, the sensory apparatus that deals with movement and balance, and which detects motion mechanically), and from the eyes, which detect motion optically.
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In an "AI kindergarten" with human trainers and educators, robots would learn in a playroom, exercising calibrated interactions while sensing the real world, starting with simpler actions like the way we use our hippocampus as we learn motor control and inner ear as we learn balance.
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After some hearing tests and an MRI to rule out things like nerve or brain tumors, I was told I likely had Ménière's disease—a rare inner-ear disorder that can cause symptoms like vertigo, tinnitus (ear ringing), nausea, and sensations of "congestion" in the ear canal.
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Last week, a UC San Diego School of Medicine professor, Beatrice Golomb, proposed another idea: clicking sounds induced in the inner ear by a beam of microwaves, a theory that had been previously raised by New Scientist magazine in December and the New York Times over the weekend.
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Sonic Boom In discussing the health problems that have afflicted U.S. officials in Cuba, Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson explain the theory that "the cause was a device that emitted radio frequencies or electromagnetic pulses" to create cavitation, or bubbling, in the inner ear ("Havana Syndrome," November 19th).
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The most common causes of dizziness are benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (caused by displaced pieces of small bone-like calcium in the inner ear), and vestibular neuritis (dizziness attributed to a viral infection or tiny stroke of the vestibular nerve), both of which typically last only weeks or months.
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By the middle of August, according to emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News, Hoffer's University of Pittsburgh colleague Balaban was corresponding with Smith about collaborating on a study of how UPenn's brain images of injured diplomats might explain how ultrasound beams could selectively damage a person's inner ear from a distance.
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They turned the stem cells into little pieces of inner ear by applying proteins at just the right time in a step-by-step process, and after a few weeks of tending to their cellular masses, were able to demonstrate that the little globs had developed into part of an ear.
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See, there's a part of the inner ear called the "middle ear space" that's supposed to have some air in it, so the ear drum can vibrate properly (and so you can hear), says Erich Voigt, otolaryngologist and clinical associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Though you might not notice it, jaw movements push earwax little by little from the inner canal to the outside, where it typically flakes away, though that might not happen for people who produce too much wax or have skin conditions that make the skin on the inner ear too dry.
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"We had suspicions that they were echolocating but to really get down to a rough estimate of frequency, you really had to look in the inner ear in more detail and that's where this project comes in," said Jonathan Geisler, a professor at N.Y.I.T. and one of Dr. Churchill's co-authors.
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MIAMI — The American government employees in Cuba who suffered mystifying symptoms — dizziness, insomnia, difficulty concentrating — after hearing a strange high-pitched sound all had one thing in common: damage to the part of the inner ear responsible for balance, according to the first doctors to examine them after the episodes.
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My boyfriend tells me that the most violent his dad ever got was while he was recovering from a painful inner ear surgery; his dad could never stand to be seen as weak or vulnerable, and so his most vulnerable times were always the most violent times for their family.
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On Bandcamp, W00DY called the release a summation of her "most personal thoughts and feelings," which is potentially concerning when you consider the tracks themselves, each of which are marathons of fractured sampling, caffeinated drum programming, and rhythmic contortions vertiginous enough to make you wonder if something's off in your inner ear.
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Sony came out with a $1993 "artificially intelligent" set of headphones in 2010, the Sony MDR-NC300D Digital Noise Canceling Earbuds, but the difference with LifeBEAMS buds, called Vi, is they have built-in software that adapts to your body using biometrics such as temperature, heart rate and other data measured through inner ear motion.
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They shared the news with Yankaskas, their US Navy ONR grant officer: "It does not seem imprudent to speculate that a highly specific unidentified energy exposure, perceived as a sound or pressure, could be producing a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or similar inner ear concussion," said a December 2017 update of the draft paper, obtained via FOIA request.
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Here's how these three systems sense movement and balance: "Your eyes allow you to see that you're moving, the nerves in the muscles and joints of your extremities allow you to feel that you're moving, and the inner ear has canals with fluid that moves around and this allows the body to perceive motion," Feldman says.
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Amazing electronic glasses are helping the blind seeA cure for baldness may be on the wayNobel-winning sleep research shows dangers of phone use in bed Cobb was referring to the very small spiral tube encased within the inner ear, which contains the nerve endings that transmit sound vibrations from the middle ear to the auditory nerve.
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From the political action of Black Lives Matter to the anthems of Kendrick Lamar, we've got what we need to make sure that one day, when our kids are sitting in an elementary classroom and hear King belt "free at last, free at last" over some strange, new fangled inner-ear audio device, it's no mere aspiration—but a statement of fact.
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As a result, they&aposre supremely comfortable, as they feel light and airy, and they don&apost add as much pressure in my inner ear as regular earplug-style earphonesWith the original EarPods and AirPods, on the other hand, I could float in space without moving and they&aposd still slide out — they simply do not fit and stay in my ears.
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Just when we thought we'd have to take a brief hiatus after the finale of Dr. Pimple Popper's TV series on TLC (which we definitely recommend watching if you haven't caught up on all six episodes), Dr. Sandra Lee, MD, blessed us with the next best thing: a satisfying montage of back blackheads, plus one massive inner ear cyst extraction on her YouTube channel.
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The three most common brain tumor types — and the ones most cellphone and human health studies focused on — are gliomas (malignant tumors of the brain and spinal cord), meningiomas (mostly noncancerous tumors of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, though a small percentage are cancerous), and acoustic neuromas (noncancerous tumors on the main nerve that leads from the inner ear to the brain).
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" Indeed, Holtzman — who is focused first on hearing loss in millennials but who has ambitions to tackle hearing loss across the age spectrum — says Decibel is working on "drugs to reduce against drug toxicity [which can cause hearing loss], drugs to repair hair cells [in the inner ear] , drugs that are looking at other aspects of hearing that may involve the [central nervous system], and drugs focused on regeneration [versus just cellular repair].
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