Basics of audiology
By: Jerry Cranford.
Publisher: Plural Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781597561808
Subjects: Deaf -- Rehabilitation; Audiology; Hearing disorders -- Diagnosis; Hearing Tests -- methods; Audiology; Auditory Diseases, Central -- diagnosis; Hearing -- physiology; Hearing Disorders -- diagnosis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Physics of sound or acoustics; title: Functional anatomy of the auditory nervous system; title: Contributions from the psychoacoustics research laboratory; title: Intake history and otoscopic examination of the patient's ear canal and eardrum; title: Pure tone air and bone conduction audiometry: how to interpret the patient's audiogram; title: Speech audiometry: what it can and cannot reveal about peripheral versus central auditory function; title: What are acoustic reflexes and what do they reveal about the patient's auditory function; title: Tympanometry and tympanograms: what they reveal about the patient's middle ear function and hearing status; title: Electrocochleography and brainstem auditory evoked potential tests and what they reveal about cochlear and brainstem functions; title: Otoacoustic emissions: the latest computerized tool for assessing peripheral hearing and neural function; title: Common forms of behavioral assessments used by audiologists to assess central auditory function; title: Recent advances in electrophysiology measurement tools for assessing central auditory nervous system (CANS) problems; title: Use of medical neuroimaging techniques to assist in evaluating cans problems in patients.