background and aim: respiratory distress syndrome (rds) is a lung disorder, which can damage the auditory brainstem pathways because of hypoxia. the aim of this study was to evaluate brainstem auditory electrophysiology changes of neonates with rds. methods: fifteen term neonates who suffered from rds, 15 term neonates admitted in the nicu for any reason except rds, and 15 normal term neonates ...

Optogenetics has become an important research tool and is being considered as the basis for several neural prostheses. However, few studies have applied optogenetics to the auditory brainstem. This study explored whether optical activation of the cochlear nucleus (CN) elicited responses in neurons in higher centers of the auditory pathway and whether it elicited an evoked response. Viral-mediat...

The brainstem of the adult rat is relatively resistant to spreading depolarization (SD) but after enhancement of excitability SD can be evoked by local application of KCl. In the present experiments, we observed that the enhanced excitability even triggers prolonged periods of repetitive depolarizations (RDs), which elicit significant cardiovascular changes. In contrast to KCl-evoked SDs with a...

A functional relationship between brainstem and cortical auditory processing was shown to be abnormal in children with language-based learning problems (LP). Auditory evoked potentials were used to investigate brainstem and cortical responses to the speech sound /da/. The duration of the wave V-V(n) complex of the auditory brainstem response was studied, as was the effect of noise on correlatio...