Spontaneous semicircular canal dehiscence affects mainly the superior semicircular canal, whereas lateral semicircular canal dehiscence is most frequently associated with chronic otitis media or ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences. For more than a century anthropologists, zoologists and palaeontologists have used a small but important part of ...

IN a recent publication 1 it was shown that in the dogfish the sense organ situated in the ampulla of the horizontal semicircular canal is in a constant state of excitation. This activity is ...

Using computed tomography to examine the inner-ear anatomy of a 150 million-year-old dinosaur fossil, a group of paleontologists from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, Germany—among them a ...

Karl Landsteiner University study shows artifacts in inner ear become more pronounced when head is tilted back and less when chin is tilted down: Krems, Austria Saturday, February ...

Dartmouth researchers have found the first direct evidence showing how the vestibular system's horizontal canals play a key role in sensing our direction in the environment. The findings, which appear ...

The first direct evidence showing how the vestibular system's horizontal canals play a key role in sensing our direction in the environment has been uncovered by scientists. Dartmouth researchers have ...