Non-monotonic relation between noise exposure severity and neuronal hyperactivity in the auditory midbrain

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Hesse, Lara Li ^a,b   Bakay, Warren ^a,d   Ong, Hui Ching ^a   Anderson, Lucy ^a   Ashmore, Jonathan ^a,c   McAlpine, David ^a,e   Linden, Jennifer ^a   Schaette, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cochlear damage; Computational model; Hearing loss; Hidden hearing loss; Mouse model; Neuronal hyperactivity; Noise exposure; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INNER HAIR CELL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 84988810015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00133     Document Type: Article

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