Cochlear implants are surgically implanted hearing aid devices. Instead of amplifying the sound pressure that enters the middle ear it transforms the input of sound via a processor into electrical stimulation to the auditory system, which is perceived within the brain as sound. In fact the conductive part of the hearing system is left out. [...]
Myth of the month November 2010
On November - 2 - 2010
About Cochlear Implant Myth: Cochlear Implant means brain surgery. Facts: The electrodes go into the Cochlea (Inner Ear), not the brain. Never and nowhere there is any contact or uncovering or exposure or touch with the brains. For the internal part of the CI a small depression is made in the mastoid for the housing [...]
