Basics of audiology
Subtitle: from vibrations to sounds
By: Jerry L. Cranford.
Publisher: Plural Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
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 and index.
Table of contents: value: Physics of sound or acoustics; value: Functional anatomy of the auditory nervous system; value: Contributions from the psychoacoustics research laboratory; value: Intake history and otoscopic examination of the patient's ear canal and eardrum; value: Pure tone air and bone conduction audiometry: how to interpret the patient's audiogram; value: Speech audiometry: what it can and cannot reveal about peripheral versus central auditory function; value: What are acoustic reflexes and what do they reveal about the patient's auditory function; value: Tympanometry and tympanograms: what they reveal about the patient's middle ear function and hearing status; value: Electrocochleography and brainstem auditory evoked potential tests and what they reveal about cochlear and brainstem functions; value: Otoacoustic emissions: the latest computerized tool for assessing peripheral hearing and neural function; value: Common forms of behavioral assessments used by audiologists to assess central auditory function; value: Recent advances in electrophysiology measurement tools for assessing central auditory nervous system (CANS) problems; value: Use of medical neuroimaging techniques to assist in evaluating cans problems in patients.