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ArticleBrain : a journal of neurology2013

Loudness adaptation accompanying ribbon synapse and auditory nerve disorders.

Dwight P Wynne, Fan-Gang Zeng, Shrutee Bhatt, Henry J Michalewski, Andrew Dimitrijevic, Arnold Starr

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Article in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dwight P WynneDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. dwynne@uci.edu
Fan-Gang Zeng
Shrutee Bhatt
Henry J Michalewski
Andrew Dimitrijevic
Arnold Starr
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

HEARING DEFICIT DUE TO AUDITORY NEUROPATHYR01DC002618 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI STARR, ARNOLD · 1996 to 2009
$3.6M
UC Irvine Core Center for Hearing and Communication ResearchP30DC008369 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI METHERATE, RAJU · 2007 to 2016
$3.3M
Interactions between Acoustic and Electric StimulationR01DC008858 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI ZENG, FAN-GANG · 2007 to 2011
$1.8M
NIDCD NIH HHS P30 DC008369NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC008858NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC02618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abnormal auditory adaptation is a standard clinical tool for diagnosing auditory nerve disorders due to acoustic neuromas. In the present study we investigated auditory adaptation in auditory neuropathy owing to disordered function of inner hair cell ribbon synapses (temperature-sensitive auditory neuropathy) or auditory nerve fibres. Subjects were tested when afebrile for (i) psychophysical loudness adaptation to comfortably-loud sustained tones; and (ii) physiological adaptation of auditory brainstem responses to clicks as a function of their position in brief 20-click stimulus trains (#1, 2, 3 … 20). Results were compared with normal hearing listeners and other forms of hearing impairment. Subjects with ribbon synapse disorder had abnormally increased magnitude of loudness adaptation to both low (250 Hz) and high (8000 Hz) frequency tones. Subjects with auditory nerve disorders had normal loudness adaptation to low frequency tones; all but one had abnormal adaptation to high frequency tones. Adaptation was both more rapid and of greater magnitude in ribbon synapse than in auditory nerve disorders. Auditory brainstem response measures of adaptation in ribbon synapse disorder showed Wave V to the first click in the train to be abnormal both in latency and amplitude, and these abnormalities increased in magnitude or Wave V was absent to subsequent clicks. In contrast, auditory brainstem responses in four of the five subjects with neural disorders were absent to every click in the train. The fifth subject had normal latency and abnormally reduced amplitude of Wave V to the first click and abnormal or absent responses to subsequent clicks. Thus, dysfunction of both synaptic transmission and auditory neural function can be associated with abnormal loudness adaptation and the magnitude of the adaptation is significantly greater with ribbon synapse than neural disorders.

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Acoustic StimulationAdaptation, PhysiologicalAdolescentAdultAgedAuditory PerceptionChildCochlear NerveFemaleHair Cells, Auditory, InnerHearing DisordersHumansHyperacusisLoudness PerceptionMaleMiddle Aged

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PMID23503620
PMCPMC3634197
OpenAlexW2014354304

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