The brains of those who are born blind make new connections in the absence of visual information, resulting in enhanced,...

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, linked symptoms of difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear investigators have shown that sound deprivation in adult mice causes irreversible damage to the inner ear....

Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to result in irreversible vision loss.

The ability to localize the source of sound is important for navigating the world and for listening in noisy environments...

Short-term hearing loss during childhood may lead to persistent hearing deficits, long after basic auditory sensitivity has returned to normal.

Investigators at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have published the most thorough description of gene expression in...

New research from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and...