Reduced Medial Olivocochlear Bundle System Function in Children with Auditory Processing Disorders

Audiology and Neuro-Otology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-114

  Muchnika, Chava ^a,b   Roth, Daphne Ari Even ^a,b   Othman Jebara, Rima ^a   Putter Katz, Hanna ^b   Shabtai, Esther L ^a   Hildesheimer, Minka ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Auditory processing disorders; Children; Contralateral suppression; Efferent system; Medial olivocochlear bundle; Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CHILD; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS;

EID: 1342301592     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076001     Document Type: Article

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