Human Auditory Evoked Potentials

Description

This book reviews how we can record the human brains response to sounds, and how we can use these recordings to assess hearing. These recordings are used in many different clinical situations the identification of hearing impairment in newborn infants, the detection of tumors on the auditory nerve, the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. As well they are used to investigate how the brain is able to hear how we can attend to particular conversations at a cocktail party and ignore others, how we learn to understand the language we are exposed to, why we have difficulty hearing when we grow old. This book is written by a single author with wide experience in all aspects of these recordings. The content is complete in terms of the essentials. The style is clear equations are absent and figures are multiple. The intent of the book is to entertain as much as to teach allusions are made to fields beyond the ear and the chapters discuss the importance of the phenomena as well as describing their nature. Title page Copyright Contents Preface 1 Introduction: Past, Present, and Potential 2 Recording Evoked Potentials: Means to an End 3 Frequency Domain: Music of the Hemispheres 4 Finding Sources: Forward and Backward 5 Acoustic Stimuli: Sounds to Charm the Brain 6 Interpreting the Waveforms: Time and Uncertainty 7 Electrocochleography: From Song to Synapse 8 Auditory Brainstem Responses: Peaks Along the Way 9 Middle-Latency Responses: The Brain and the Brawn 10 Auditory Steady-State and Following Responses: Dancing to the Rhythms 11 Late Auditory Evoked Potentials: Changing the Things Which Are 12 Endogenous Auditory Evoked Potentials: Attention Must Be Paid 13 Infant Hearing Assessment: Opening Ears 14 Neurotology and Neurology: From Cochlea to Cortex 15 Auditory Neuropathy: When Time Is Broke 16 Cochlear Implants: Body Electric 17 Concluding Comments: Beginning to Live Index