Cortical hearing deficit. A deaf brain.
Deafness occasionally results from bilateral lesions of the temporal lobes. Conventional methods of assessing hearing are not helpful in the diagnosis of this condition. We describe the case of a patient who exhibited the hallmark of a cortical hearing disorder--he was able to hear simple sounds, but could not make sense of complex sounds such as speech and music.
D001299:Audiometry; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed