while most tinnitus cases have some degree of hearing impairment, a small percent of the patients admitted to ear, nose and throat clinics or hearing evaluation centers are those who complain of tinnitus despite having normal hearing thresholds. present study was performed in order to better understanding of the probable causes of tinnitus and to investigate possible changes in the cochlear and...

Tonal relationships are foundational in music, providing the basis upon which musical structures, such as melodies, are constructed and perceived. A recent dynamic theory of musical tonality predicts that networks of auditory neurons resonate nonlinearly to musical stimuli. Nonlinear resonance leads to stability and attraction relationships among neural frequencies, and these neural dynamics gi...

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...

This case illustrates the occurrence of a sudden hearing sensitivity loss that, in all likelihood, was the result of brainstem disorder resulting from multiple sclerosis (MS) . Subject LD is a young woman who developed a sudden hearing loss while hospitalized for exacerbation of symptoms related to multiple sclerosis. By her own report, she had normal hearing in her left ear at the time of hosp...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to assess the effectiveness of auditory steady-state response (ASSR), determine the cut-off values for each frequency, and detect the best correlated frequencies when compared with the auditory brainstem response (ABR) thresholds in term babies under the age of 12 months. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, 88 term babies with a mean age of 2.98 (1-11) months ...

Carpenter syndrome (Acrocephalopolysyndactyly type II), first described in 1901, consists of acrocephaly, syndactyly, polydactyly, congenital heart disease, mental retardation, hypogenitalism, cryptorchidism, obesity, umbilical hernia and bony abnormalities. We report a 6 years old boy presenting as a union of these malformations and also having bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Auditory di...

INTRODUCTION Noonan syndrome (NS) is a heterogeneous genetic disease that affects many parts of the body. It was named after Dr. Jacqueline Anne Noonan, a paediatric cardiologist. CASE REPORT We report audiological tests and auditory brainstem response (ABR) findings in a 5-year old Malay boy with NS. Despite showing the marked signs of NS, the child could only produce a few meaningful words....

Background: although clinical use of the click stimulus for the evaluation of brainstem auditory function is widespread, and despite the fact that several researchers use such stimulus in studies involving human hearing, little is known about the auditory processing of complex stimuli such as speech. Aim: to characterize the findings of the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) performed with speec...

Objectives. To review our experience of conducting auditory brainstem response (ABR) test on children in the operating room and discuss the benefits versus limitations of this practice. Methods. Retrospective review study conducted in a pediatric tertiary care facility. A total of 267 patients identified with usable data, including ABR results, medical and surgical notes, and follow-up evaluati...

how to cite this article: ververi a, vargiami e, v papadopoulou v, tryfonas d, zafeiriou di. brainstem auditory evoked potentials in boys with autism: still searching for the hidden truth. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):21-28. abstract objective brainstem auditory evoked potentials (baeps) have long been utilized in the investigation of auditory modulation and, more specifically, auditor...