title: The Ying and Yang of Auditory Nerve Damage.
abstract: Chambers et al. investigate consequences in the central auditory system after profound cochlear denervation. They observed gains in firing rate in auditory cortex despite nearly absent auditory nerve and brainstem responses, suggesting an important role of central plasticity and its clinical implications.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: xiaoqin.wang@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: Xiaoqin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D003051:Cochlea / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D017084:Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous / Q000502:physiology*; D013216:Reflex, Startle / Q000502:physiology*