title: The effect of click rate on latency and interpeak interval of the brain-stem auditory evoked potentials in children from birth to 6 years.
abstract: Latency and interpeak interval of the brain-stem auditory evoked potentials at different click rates were measured in 80 healthy children from birth to 6 years, and 21 adults. Clicks were presented at 10, 30, 50, 70 and 90/sec, and 70, 40 and 20 dB HL. At high stimulus intensity (70 dB SL), all latencies of waves I, III and V and the I-V, I-III and III-V intervals showed a progressive prolongation with increasing repetition rate. The latency- and the interval-rate functions were similar for all age groups but their slopes were slightly steeper in younger than in older. As click rate increased from 10/sec to 90/sec, the latencies of waves I, III and V at different age groups were prolonged by 4-10%, 9-13% and 12-15% respectively, and the intervals of I-V, I-III and III-V were prolonged by 15-16%, 8-16% and 14-24% respectively. The mean increments of wave V latency and I-V interval in different age groups were 0.404-0.575 and 0.332-0.526 msec respectively with increasing click rate from 10 to 50/sec, and 0.697-1.009 and 0.629-0.776 msec respectively with increasing click rate from 10 to 90/sec. The younger the age the larger the absolute increments for all these BAEP parameters, but the increasing rates for a BAEP measure were similar among different age groups, exhibiting no age-dependent differences.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Health, Children's Hospital, Shanghai Medical University, People's Rep. of China.
authors.forename: Z D
authors.initials: ZD
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Y Y
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: L Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: X Y
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011930:Reaction Time