Effects of neonatal partial deafness and chronic intracochlear electrical stimulation on auditory and electrical response characteristics in primary auditory cortex.
The use of cochlear implants in patients with severe hearing losses but residual low-frequency hearing raises questions concerning the effects of chronic intracochlear electrical stimulation (ICES) on cortical responses to auditory and electrical stimuli. We investigated these questions by studying responses to tonal and electrical stimuli in primary auditory cortex (AI) of two groups of neonatally deafened cats with residual high-threshold, low-frequency hearing. One group were implanted with a multi-channel intracochlear electrode at 8 weeks of age, and received chronic ICES for up to 9 months before cortical recording. Cats in the other group were implanted immediately prior to cortical recording as adults. In all cats in both groups, multi-neuron responses throughout the rostro-caudal extent of AI had low characteristic frequencies (CFs), in the frequency range of the residual hearing, and high-thresholds. Threshold and minimum latency at CF did not differ between the groups, but in the chronic ICES animals there was a higher proportion of electrically but not acoustically excited recording sites. Electrical response thresholds were higher and latencies shorter in the chronically stimulated animals. Thus, chronic implantation and ICES affected the extent of AI that could be activated by acoustic stimuli and resulted in changes in electrical response characteristics.
Fallon
James B
JB
The Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne, Vic. 3002, Australia. jfallon@bionicear.org
Shepherd
Robert K
RK
Brown
Mel
M
Irvine
Dexter R F
DR
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002415:Cats; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004976:Ethacrynic Acid; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006316:Hearing Loss, High-Frequency / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D007612:Kanamycin; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D011930:Reaction Time; D013997:Time Factors
D007612:Kanamycin; D004976:Ethacrynic Acid
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