Auditory brain-stem responses evoked by electrical stimulation of the cochlear nucleus in human subjects

Author(s):  
Michael D. Waring
Author(s):  
F. Portillo ◽  
R. A. Nelson ◽  
D. E. Brackmann ◽  
W. E. Hitselberger ◽  
R. V. Shannon ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohit N. Shivdasani ◽  
Stefan J. Mauger ◽  
Graeme D. Rathbone ◽  
Antonio G. Paolini

Multichannel techniques were used to assess the frequency specificity of activation in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (CIC) produced by electrical stimulation of localized regions within the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN). Data were recorded in response to pure tones from 141 and 193 multiunit clusters in the rat VCN and the CIC, respectively. Of 141 VCN sites, 126 were individually stimulated while recording responses in the CIC. A variety of CIC response types were seen with an increase in both electrical and acoustic stimulation levels. The majority of sites exhibited monotonic rate-level types acoustically, whereas spike rate saturation was achieved predominantly with electrical stimulation. In 20.6% of the 364 characteristic frequency aligned VCN–CIC pairs, the CIC sites did not respond to stimulation. In 26% of the 193 CIC sites, a high correlation was observed between acoustic tuning and electrical tuning obtained through VCN stimulation. A high degree of frequency specificity was found in 58% of the 118 lowest threshold VCN–CIC pairs. This was dependent on electrode placement within the VCN because a higher degree of frequency specificity was achieved with stimulation of medial, central, and posterolateral VCN regions than more anterolateral regions. Broadness of acoustic tuning in the CIC played a role in frequency-specific activation. Narrowly tuned CIC sites showed the lowest degree of frequency specificity on stimulation of the anterolateral VCN regions. These data provide significant implications for auditory brain stem implant electrode placement, current localization, power requirements, and facilitation of information transfer to higher brain centers.


Author(s):  
Laurie S. Eisenberg ◽  
Albert A. Maltan ◽  
Franco Portillo ◽  
Phil Mobley ◽  
William F. House

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin OʼDriscoll ◽  
Wael El-Deredy ◽  
Richard T. Ramsden

1979 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 550-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Starr ◽  
Derald E. Brackmann

Brain stem potentials were recorded from scalp electrode to biphasic square wave electrical stimulation of implanted electrodes in the cochlea of three patients. Reliable potentials could be recorded that appeared 1.5 to 2.0 msec prior to the customary acoustically-evoked brain stem potentials. The effects of variations in electrical stimulus parameters of rate and intensity were measured. Brain stem potentials can provide objective indices of the effectiveness of electrical stimulation of the cochlea in man.


1983 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 1013-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aage R. Møller ◽  
Peter J. Jannetta

✓ Intracranial responses from the auditory nerve and the cochlear nucleus were recorded from patients undergoing neurosurgical operations during which these structures were exposed. Responses to stimulation of the ipsilateral ear with short tonebursts from the vicinity of the cochlear nucleus show a large surface-negative peak, the latency of which is close to that of peak III in the auditory brain-stem evoked potentials recorded from scalp electrodes. There was also a response to contralateral stimulation, smaller in amplitude and with a longer latency. It is concluded that the cochlear nucleus is the main generator of peak III responses, and that structures of the ascending auditory pathway that are more central than the cochlear nucleus are unlikely to contribute to wave III of the auditory brain-stem evoked potentials.


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