Hearing restoration by a low-weight power-efficient multichannel optogenetic cochlear implant system
Lukasz Jablonski, Tamás Harczos, Bettina Wolf, Gerhard Hoch, Lakshay Khurana, Alexander Dieter, Lennart Roos, Roland Hessler, Suleman Ayub, Patrick Ruther, Tobias Moser
This paper develops a low-weight, wireless optogenetic cochlear implant system for hearing restoration in deafened rats, demonstrating its ability to enable locomotion tasks in response to acoustic stimulation.
Journal of Neural Engineering · Jul 15, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience