Central auditory impairment in unilateral diencephalic and telencephalic lesions

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-144

  Biedermann, Franziska ^a   Bungert, Peggy ^a   Dörrscheidt, Gerd Joachim ^b   Von Cramon, D Yves ^a   Rübsamen, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contralateral impairment; Cortical auditory processing; Dichotic hearing; Psychoacoustic tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DIENCEPHALON; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STROKE; TELENCEPHALON;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISEASES, CENTRAL; BRAIN DISEASES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 38949152392     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111784     Document Type: Article

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