title: Early auditory evoked potentials: developmental aspects and validity in neuropaediatric and audiologic disorders.
abstract: Auditory evoked potentials and in this context especially five waves in the first 10 ms (early auditory evoked potentials = EAEP) are a diagnostic aid in topodiagnosis of posterior fossa diseases. This is due to waves I to V which arise along the acoustic nerve and in brain stem structures such as medulla, pons and mid-brain. Besides an indication about the site of a lesion in the posterior fossa, wave V allows an objective threshold determination. The present results were gained in normal children aged 1-3 years and in children with neuropaediatric and audiologic disorders.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002549:Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder / Q000503:physiopathology; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007966:Leukodystrophy, Metachromatic / Q000503:physiopathology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009431:Neural Conduction