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Our studio guest is Prof. Dirk Mürbe, who heads the Saxonian Cochlear Implant Center. Long-term hearing loss and deafness are conditions that are generally incurable. Damage to the ear is often irreversible. However, technology can come to the rescue. A device called a cochlear implant, placed deep inside the inner ear can help break the silence. Hearing-impaired children who receive a cochlear implant early on can learn to hear and speak normally. And it turns out that their brains are undergoing some major reorganization.
Our studio guest is Prof. Dirk Mürbe, who heads the Saxonian Cochlear Implant Center. Long-term hearing loss and deafness are conditions that are generally incurable. Damage to the ear is often irreversible. However, technology can come to the rescue. A device called a cochlear implant, placed deep inside the inner ear can help break the silence. Hearing-impaired children who receive a cochlear implant early on can learn to hear and speak normally. And it turns out that their brains are undergoing some major reorganization.
