“This stimulates numerous nerve endings within the ear canal, creating a pleasant tingling feeling. It also triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s feel-good hormones.” A 2019 study ...

Most cochlear nerves carry information from the cochlea ... “OCT lets us look down the ear canal, through the eardrum and bone into the cochlea, and measure how it’s working—noninvasively ...

He explained that the ear is filled with sensitive nerve endings, and stimulating these ... rather than the wax in the external ear canal. The pleasure it provides causes people to forget ...