The implementation of universal newborn hearing screening programmes throughout the world has increased the need for reliable, objective techniques for fitting and evaluating hearing aids in young infants. For infants found to have a hearing loss as a result of newborn hearing screening intervention, including hearing aid fitting, is typically occurring by age 6-8 weeks. It is difficult to asse...

Somatosensory, visual and brainstem auditory evoked potentials were recorded in 10 unpremedicated patients anaesthetized with isoflurane in oxygen. Recordings were made at 0.5%, 1.1% and 1.65% (six patients) end-tidal isoflurane concentration. There were statistically significant increases in the latencies of the somatosensory (N20), visual and brainstem auditory potentials (waves III and V) wi...

A technique for conducting free-field brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) audiometry in unanesthetized, unrestrained rats revealed a non-recruiting 18 dB elevation of click threshold in aged rats. BAEPs were first recorded in young and aged rats to clicks of equal intensity (80 dB SPL). Compared to the young group, aged animals exhibited longer wave I and wave IV latencies with no differ...

Speech delay with an unknown cause is a problem among children. This diagnosis is the last differential diagnosis after observing normal findings in routine hearing tests. The present study was undertaken to determine whether auditory brainstem responses to click stimuli are different between normally developing children and children suffering from delayed speech with unknown causes. In this cr...

Visual, cortical somatosensory and brainstem auditory evoked potentials were recorded before incidental irradiation of the rhombencephalon and at 11 weeks and eight months after completion of treatment. No patient experienced neurological symptoms during this period. No consistent changes in evoked potentials were found. The failure to demonstrate subclinical radiation-induced demyelination sug...

Using clicks with varying interstimulus intervals and coherent tone-bursts, early components of the auditory evoked potential (brain stem responses) were studied in four patients with confirmed acoustic neuroma. Abnormalities in responses appeared with shorter interstimulus intervals and with tone-bursts delivered monaurally to the involved ear; bilateral alterations occurred in one patient wit...

OBJECTIVES To assess the use of cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) to verify, and if necessary, optimize the cochlear implant (CI) fitting of adult CI users with postlingual single-sided deafness (SSD). METHODS Sound field cortical responses to the speech tokens /m/, /g/, /t/, and /s/ were recorded from input to the CI while the normal hearing ear was masked. Responses were evaluated...