Central Auditory Pathway Disorders

✍ Scribed by Kimitaka Kaga M.D., Ph.D. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 149
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Brain imaging and neurophysiological methods have been rapidly developed. The purpose of this book is to describe hearing problems which are caused by various kinds of brain diseases in central auditory pathway. Each topic is explained to use a lot of figures such as brain imaging and neurophysiological data comparing with neuropsychological tests. Readers will understand what happens in patients, when bilateral auditory nerve and auditory cortex are damaged in patients. Some patients can hear but cannot discriminate meanings of speech, music and environmental sounds. The author tries to explain why such a difference occurs.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Origins of Evoked Potentials....Pages 7-20
Development and Brainstem Responses (ABRs)....Pages 21-31
Auditory Nerve Lesions....Pages 33-44
Brainstem and Midbrain Lesions....Pages 45-81
Unilateral Auditory Radiation and/or Auditory Cortex Lesions and Perception....Pages 83-94
Bilateral Auditory Cortex and/or Auditory Radiation Lesion and Perception....Pages 95-115
Auditory Agnosia in Children....Pages 117-128
Auditory Cortex Lesion and Sound Lateralization: Interaural Time Difference Versus the Interaural Intensity Difference....Pages 129-135
Corpus Callosum Lesions....Pages 137-142
Back Matter....Pages 143-146

✦ Subjects

Otorhinolaryngology; Neurology; Neurosurgery