The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of stimulus polarity on speech evoked auditory brainstem response (ABR). In order to accomplish it, speech evoked ABR was recorded with various stimulus polarities from 17 normally hearing adults. The result of the study shows differential effect of stimulus polarity on components of speech evoked ABR. Latency of peaks for onset, sustai...

OBJECTIVE To determine the brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) abnormalities and their reversibility in neonates with birth asphyxia. DESIGN Prospective case control study. SETTING Tertiary care teaching hospital. METHODS 30 term Neonates with 5-min Apgar < 6 and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) underwent BAER testing with follow up at 3 months. An equal number of normal term n...

I n today’s world of veterinary medicine, veterinary clients expect that their animals will receive high standards of specialized care (1). In companion animal medicine, clients often treat their pet as “one of the family” and expect that veterinarians also make the animal’s health a priority in comparison to revenue generated from the animal’s care (2). Companion animal owners consider their p...

Herein, we report a case of multiple sclerosis in which peripheral and central hearing, were evaluated through early (brainstem), middle and late auditory evoked potentials before and after corticosteroid therapy. Auditory evaluation revealed better performance on all post-treatment tests. In this case, central auditory function tests (behavioral and electrophysiological) identified the locatio...

Two fundamental research questions have driven attention research in the past: One concerns whether selection of relevant information among competing, irrelevant, information takes place at an early or at a late processing stage; the other concerns whether the capacity of attention is limited by a central, domain-general pool of resources or by independent, modality-specific pools. In this arti...

Since its inception by Jewett and Williston in the late 1960s, auditory brainstem response (ABR) has been an indispensable diagnostic tool, used audiologists around world. Click-evoked ABR testing proves to be a reliable as it provides objective representation of function, estimate hearing thresholds ability pinpoint potential issue neural pathway. The present study describes state-of-the-art a...

we compared the extent of temporary threshold shift (tts) and hair cell loss following high level 4 khz noise exposure with those preconditioned with moderate level 1 and 4 khz octave band noise. fifteen male albino guinea pigs (300- 350 g in weight) were randomly allocated into three groups: those exposed to 4 khz octave band noise at 102 db spl (group 1, n=5); those conditioned with 1 khz oct...