Auditory Brain Stem Implants

Brain Stem

Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem

Auditory Brain Stem Implantation

Neurofibromatosis type II

Howard P. House

Neuroprosthetics

Neurofibromatosis

Brain implant

Claude-Henri Chouard

List of MeSH codes (E07)

Mohan Kameswaran

Auditory brainstem response

Presbycusis

Frequency following response

Vision Institute

Microtia

Graeme Clark (doctor)

Artificial organ

Ramesh C. Deka

Bone conduction

Hearing loss

Mohr-Tranebjærg syndrome

Kernicterus

Sensorineural hearing loss

Electroencephalography

Multisensory integration

Timeline of human prenatal development

Sense

Myelin

Development of the nervous system

Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep

Auditory processing disorder

TET enzymes

Brain

Brain-computer interface

Translational neuroscience

Neural oscillation

Megabat

Language acquisition

Nitrazepam

Hearing Health Foundation

Safety of electronic cigarettes

Cochlear Implants6

• Multi-channel hearing devices typically used for patients who have tumors on the COCHLEAR NERVE and are unable to benefit from COCHLEAR IMPLANTS after tumor surgery that severs the cochlear nerve. (nih.gov)
• The device electrically stimulates the nerves of cochlea nucleus in the BRAIN STEM rather than the inner ear as in cochlear implants. (nih.gov)
• She has a particular interest in aural rehabilitation, cochlear implants, and hearing aid fittings. (bchccnet.org)
• Cochlear Implants International. (manchester.ac.uk)
• The Cochlear Implant Program at Cincinnati Children's consists of a diverse team of specialists dedicated to evaluating whether cochlear implants are a viable option for your child. (cincinnatichildrens.org)
• These include hearing aids, cochlear implants, and communication approaches. (nih.gov)

Cochlea3

• Sensorineural hearing loss is caused by a problem in the cochlea or the auditory nerve, which are parts of the ear that help sound impulses reach the brain. (nih.gov)
• Auditory brainstem response (ABR) audiometry typically uses a click stimulus that generates a response from the basilar region of the cochlea. (medscape.com)
• The response is believed to originate from afferent activity of the CN VIII fibers (first-order neurons) as they leave the cochlea and enter the internal auditory canal. (medscape.com)

Centers2

• Later waves may reflect postsynaptic activity in major brainstem auditory centers that concomitantly contribute to waveform peaks and troughs. (medscape.com)
• Brain and spinal cord serve as the primary processing centers for the entire nervous system, and control the working of the body. (persistencemarketresearch.com)

Nerve1

• The ABR wave I response is the far-field representation of the compound auditory nerve action potential in the distal portion of cranial nerve (CN) VIII. (medscape.com)

Traumatic brain4

• Neuroprosthetics Market Segmented By types such as sensory implants, motor prosthetics, and cognitive prosthetics used to treat conditions such as paralysis, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and speech deficit. (persistencemarketresearch.com)
• Similarly, cognitive prosthetics restore the function of brain tissue loss in conditions such as paralysis, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and speech deficit. (persistencemarketresearch.com)
• Increasing prevalence of neurological diseases such as traumatic brain injury, stroke and Parkinson's disease, rise in geriatric population, increase in healthcare expenditure, growing awareness about healthcare, rapid progression of technology, and increasing number of initiatives by various governments and government associations are some key factors driving growth of the global neuroprosthetics market. (persistencemarketresearch.com)
• Long-lasting damage after a traumatic brain injury can be caused by excessive neuroinflammation in the brain. (karger.com)

Evaluation1

• Although the ABR provides information regarding auditory function and hearing sensitivity, it is not a substitute for a formal hearing evaluation, and results should be used in conjunction with behavioral audiometry whenever possible. (medscape.com)

Response3

• Auditory brainstem response (ABR) audiometry is a neurologic test of auditory brainstem function in response to auditory (click) stimuli. (medscape.com)
• Normal adult auditory brainstem response (ABR) audiometry waveform response. (medscape.com)
• The auditory brain stem response (ABR) measures the hearing nerve's response to sound. (nih.gov)

Normal1

• A study by Bramhall et al indicated that in persons with normal pure-tone auditory thresholds, those with a history of greater noise exposure tend to have smaller ABR wave I amplitudes at suprathreshold levels. (medscape.com)

Include2

• The major types of neuroprosthetics include sensory implants, motor prosthetics, and cognitive prosthetics. (persistencemarketresearch.com)
• Some key functions of neuroprosthetics include providing hearing, seeing, feeling abilities, pain relief, and restoring damaged brain cells. (persistencemarketresearch.com)

Common1

• First described by Jewett and Williston in 1971, ABR audiometry is the most common application of auditory evoked responses. (medscape.com)

Surgery1

• Innovative self-charging neural implants that eliminate the need for high risk and costly surgery to replace the discharge battery and controlling machinery with thoughts would help to develop opportunities for the growth of the global neuroprosthetics market. (persistencemarketresearch.com)

Function1

• Neuroprosthetics, also known as neural prosthetics, are devices implanted in the body that stimulate the function of an organ or organ system that has failed due to disease or injury. (persistencemarketresearch.com)

Central1

• Central nervous system comprises brain and spinal cord, and is responsible for integration of sensory information. (persistencemarketresearch.com)

Activity2

• The positive peaks of the waveforms reflect combined afferent (and likely efferent) activity from axonal pathways in the auditory brain stem. (medscape.com)
• It is a brain-computer interface device used to detect and translate neural activity into command sequences for prostheses. (persistencemarketresearch.com)

Complex2

• The signal travels along the auditory pathway from the cochlear nuclear complex proximally to the inferior colliculus. (medscape.com)
• Brain is the largest and one of the most complex organs in the human body. (persistencemarketresearch.com)

Sound1

• The auditory brain stem implant is another device that promises to bring a sense of sound to those without it, albeit by a different route. (hackaday.com)

Pathway2

• CONCLUSION: The alterations of diffusion tensor imaging metrics on the auditory pathway reflect the microstructural changes of white matter tracts. (bvsalud.org)
• MLAEP is used for more accurate diagnosis of changes that affect the auditory pathway, especially in paediatric populations. (bvsalud.org)

Neural3

• BACKGROUND: We aimed to investigate the changes that may occur in the auditory neural network in pediatric congenital hearing loss cases. (bvsalud.org)
• This exam has shown to be the most appropriate method for the objective evaluation of auditory pathways integrity since MLAEP have higher neural origins 9 . (bvsalud.org)
• This working group focuses on multiple scale analysis and simulation of neural systems and processes with a special emphasis on the cross-level integration of the intrinsic cellular, network, and systems-level brain mechanisms. (nih.gov)

Methods1

• METHODS: Fifty-four cochlear implant candidates and 47 normal-hearing controls were included in this retrospective study. (bvsalud.org)

OBJECTIVE1

• OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the listening conditions of bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users in their daily living environment. (bvsalud.org)

Alterations1

• He subsequently worked as a research technician in Dr. Kevin Bath' lab at Brown University, where he assisted to characterize how alterations to brain development from early life stress influence risk for psychopathology. (nih.gov)

Greatly2

• People with severe to profound loss are greatly helped by a cochlear implant. (msdmanuals.com)
• Symptoms may vary greatly among individuals, depending on which parts of the brain have been injured. (nih.gov)

Speech2

• CONCLUSIONS: A second CI may be more frequently used in challenging listening environments because of its binaural auditory effect, despite its lower speech discrimination performance. (bvsalud.org)
• BACKGROUND: Patients with a cochlear implant (CI) should be evaluated for a new speech processor every 6 years. (bvsalud.org)

Neuroscience1

• The NIH Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award supports the pre- to post-doctoral transition of diverse graduate students. (nih.gov)

Fetal2

• When taken together, these study results suggest a connection between the ability to understand and follow along with rhythmic cues and genes active in the brain that begin during fetal development. (nih.gov)
• In some cases, the areas of the brain involved in muscle movement do not develop as expected during fetal growth. (nih.gov)

Adults1

• NIH researchers successfully treated adults with severe sickle cell disease using a modified stem cell transplant approach that doesn't require extensive immune-suppressing drugs. (nih.gov)

Investigate1

• She combines human stem-cell modeling and transgenic mice to investigate how aging- and disease-induced changes to astrocyte's homeostatic functions promote synaptic and neuronal deficits in these contexts. (nih.gov)

Children6

• To present scientific evidence, based on a systematic review of the literature, on the benefit of brainstem implants in auditory rehabilitation and language development in children. (nih.gov)
• A systematic search was used to identify studies that contain information about the benefit of brainstem implants in the auditory rehabilitation and language development of children. (nih.gov)
• Gução et al, (2014) 8 confirmed this hypothesis and concluded, in their study, that there was a change in the functioning of the auditory information to the cortex level in two children with Asperger Syndrome. (bvsalud.org)
• Some children have been successfully treated with blood stem cell, or bone marrow, transplants. (nih.gov)
• Some children have partial or complete hearing loss, particularly as the result of jaundice or lack of oxygen to the developing brain. (nih.gov)
• Learning difficulties-Children with CP may have difficulty processing particular types of spatial and auditory information. (nih.gov)

Hearing loss1

• Sensorineural hearing loss is caused by a problem in the cochlea or the auditory nerve, which are parts of the ear that help sound impulses reach the brain. (nih.gov)

System2

• Pure-tone audiometry was performed, and if no change was detected, Biologic's portable Evoked Potential System (EP) was used to measure auditory evoked potentials. (bvsalud.org)
• These genes were more likely to be found in areas associated with central nervous system function, including brain tissue, and early brain development. (nih.gov)

Entry1

• But in people with certain neurological disorders-such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Huntington's disease-abnormalities in this barrier may block the entry of biomolecules essential to healthy brain activity. (nih.gov)

Lower2

• The fractional anisotropy values of the patients in lateral lemniscus, auditory radiation, Heschl's gyrus, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, superior longitudinal fascicle, and corpus callosum splenium were lower than the control group. (bvsalud.org)
• The clinical application of MLAEP is used in the evaluation of any abnormality that could impair the central auditory pathways, situated between the brain-colliculus lower trunk and the primary auditory cortex 7 . (bvsalud.org)

Central1

• In Brazil, studies have been conducted using MLAEP in clinical conditions such as auditory processing disorder central 10 , aphasia 11 , human immunode 﫿 ciency caused by HIV virus 12-13 Landau-Kleffner syndrome 14 , Multiple Sclerosis 15 , showing latency and amplitude changes in these conditions inherent to dysfunctions of central auditory pathways. (bvsalud.org)

Oxygen1

• The BBB's tiny gaps let vital small molecules, such as oxygen and water, diffuse from the bloodstream into the brain while helping to keep out larger, impermeable foreign substances that don't belong there. (nih.gov)

Human1

• The structure and function of the human brain is guided by gene expression patterns during prenatal development. (nih.gov)

Result2

• as for amplitude, it is the electrical activity at the cortex level generated as a result of auditory stimulation 1,2 . (bvsalud.org)
• In others, the damage is a result of injury to the brain either before, during, or after birth. (nih.gov)

Control2

• However, the biomedical devices currently fabricated from the ECM have limited tunability or dynamic control once implanted within the body. (nih.gov)
• CP is caused by damage to or abnormalities inside the developing brain that disrupt the brain's ability to control movement and maintain posture and balance. (nih.gov)

Areas of the brain1

• Additionally, genes associated with beat synchronicity overlapped with genetic patterns of other traits, including those involved in biological rhythms, such as walking and breathing, as well as genes active in areas of the brain associated with motor skills and timing. (nih.gov)

Population1

• We must confront emerging challenges, such as conquering the epidemic of obesity, better managing chronic diseases, exploring the promise of stem cells, and focusing on aging of the population and the persisting disparities in health among different segments of our population. (nih.gov)

Cells1

• The blood-brain barrier, or BBB, is a dense sheet of cells that surrounds most of the brain's blood vessels. (nih.gov)