Cochlear implants partially restore auditory sensation in individuals affected by severe to profound hearing loss. We investigated vowel detection, identification, and discrimination in a group of congenitally-deafened, unilaterally-implanted, Italian children and in a group of age-matched controls, by combining behavioral and neurophysiologic measures. Comparable vowel identification and discr...

BACKGROUND The tobacco withdrawal syndrome indicates the development of neurophysiologic dependence. Clinical evidence indicates that neurophysiologic dependence develops through a set sequence of symptom presentation that can be assessed with a new 3-item survey measure of wanting, craving, and needing tobacco, the Level of Physical Dependence (PD). This study sought to determine if advancing ...

INTRODUCTION Radiological studies show that 80% of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with more than 10 years present spinal afflictions and 40% of those patients will present neurological deterioration. The somatesthetic evoked potential (SEP) and the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are neurophysiologic studies that may be useful in early diagnosis of neurological damage. OBJECTIVE T...

BACKGROUND Significant (>70%) extracranial stenosis of the internal carotid artery (ICA) is a known risk factor for brain damage in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). There is no clear evidence of the low and moderate ICA stenoses influence on the neurophysiologic status of patients after CABG. This work was aimed at studying the influe...

OBJECTIVE Emotional disturbance is a common complication of stroke significantly affecting functional recovery and quality of life. Identifying relevant neurophysiologic markers associated with post-stroke emotional disturbance may lead to a better understanding of this disabling condition, guiding the diagnosis, development of new interventions and the assessments of treatment response. METH...

Research over the past decade has provided new insights into the neural mechanisms likely to produce the false percepts of sound associated with tinnitus. These insights have emerged mainly as a result of electrophysiologic studies, examining changes in brain activity, and behavioral studies, examining changes in perception, in animals that have been treated with well-known tinnitus inducers su...