Degradation of temporal resolution in the auditory midbrain after prolonged deafness is reversed by electrical stimulation of the cochlea

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3339-3355

  Vollmer, Maike ^a,b   Leake, Patricia A ^a   Beitel, Ralph E ^a   Rebscher, Stephen J ^a   Snyder, Russell L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CAT; CELL DENSITY; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; SPIRAL GANGLION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; CELL COUNT; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SPIRAL GANGLION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19344368037     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00900.2004     Document Type: Article

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