Pathophysiological mechanisms and functional hearing consequences of auditory neuropathy

Brain

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3141-3158

  Rance, Gary ^a   Starr, Arnold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory brainstem response; auditory neuropathy; cochlear implant; postsynaptic; presynaptic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MIDDLE EAR MUSCLE REFLEX; ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AUDITORY GANGLION CELL; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; DENDRITE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; INNER HAIR CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CYTOLOGY; HAIR CELL; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; MYELINATED NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIRAL GANGLION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DENDRITES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; SPIRAL GANGLION;

EID: 84947760432     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv270     Document Type: Review

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