Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-Synchrony Disorder: Diagnosis and Management

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1027-1040

  Hood, Linda J ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory; Characteristics; Cochlear implant; Diagnosis; Dys synchrony; Management; Neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR NERVE DEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EFFERENT ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ENLARGED VESTIBULAR AQUEDUCT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; UNILATERAL AUDITORY NEUROPATHY SPECTRUM DISORDER; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; VISUAL INFORMATION; CHILD; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; INFANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84947869941     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: 15578259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2015.06.006     Document Type: Review

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