- How do the semicircular canals of the inner ear detect rotation and orientation?
- Why was Bárány still a prisoner of war in Russia when his Nobel Prize was awarded?
Hearing and Audiology
The physiology of hearing and its disorders.
- How does the basilar membrane in the cochlea create a travelling wave that peaks at different locations for different sound frequencies?
- Why do high frequencies peak near the base of the cochlea and low frequencies near the apex?
- What methods did Georg von Békésy use with cadaver ears and large-scale models to study how sound is mechanically decoded?
- How did Békésy's model of cochlear mechanics later influence the design of cochlear implants?
- How does age-related hearing loss explain why the Mosquito device only bothers teenagers?
- How does the direction of rotation relative to the release affect the inner ear's response?
- What role does the otoferlin protein play in converting mechanical vibration into an electrical signal in the inner ear?
- How was a functional copy of the OTOF gene delivered directly to the hair cells of the cochlea?
- How much did hearing thresholds improve in trial participants after the gene therapy injection?