Laboratory methods of assessing hearing loss.
Methods for assessing hearing loss in human loss in human and in animal are reviewed with special reference to the use of brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BSEP). The technique of recording and digital filtering of BSEP is described and compared with the results obtained by use of traditional analog filtering. The use of electrophysiological methods in assessing threshold shifts in studies of the effect of noise exposure on hearing in experimental animals is described for examples of results obtained in rats.
D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D051381:Rats