title: Early tone-evoked responses in normal and hearing-impaired subjects.
abstract: Early evoked responses to 500-Hz tone bursts were recorded from normal and hearing-impaired children and adults. The threshold values of the early evoked responses provide useful estimates of auditory functioning, even among difficult-to-test populations, such as deaf-blind children. Latency measures indicate that the early response is generated at the brain stem. Latency measures from hearing-impaired subjects show that the response can identify recruitment. Several subjects having a history of nonspecific communication disorders, e.g., dyslexia, exhibited aberrant early evoked response waveforms. The early-evoked response measures, therefore, amy be useful in detecting and assessing communication disorders which are believed to be of cortical origin, but now should be considered to have a basis in brain stem dysfunction.
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D001766:Blindness / Q000503:physiopathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003638:Deafness / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000503:physiopathology