PMID- 10779185
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000711
LR  - 20190716
IS  - 0001-6489 (Print)
IS  - 0001-6489 (Linking)
VI  - 120
IP  - 1
DP  - 2000 Jan
TI  - Auditory cortical responses in patients with Bell's palsy.
PG  - 47-50
AB  - We recorded auditory evoked magnetic responses with a whole-scalp 122-channel 
      SQUID neuromagnetometer in 14 patients with Bell's palsy (9 with left-sided and 5 
      with right-sided) and in 10 controls. The stimuli were 50-ms 1-kHz tone bursts, 
      delivered first to the left and then to the right ear at interstimulus intervals 
      (ISIs) of 1, 2 and 4 s. In patients, the N100m, the 100-ms response originating 
      in the auditory cortices peaked, on average, 8 ms earlier and the response 
      strengths were, on average, 7 nAm stronger over the contralateral than 
      ipsilateral hemisphere. The response latencies and strengths did not differ 
      significantly from those of controls and there were no significant differences in 
      response latencies and strengths between the stimulation of the affected and 
      healthy side. On average, the response latencies and strengths increased as a 
      function of ISI over both hemispheres both in patients and in controls. These 
      findings suggest that Bell's palsy is an isolated peripheral neuropathy that does 
      not affect the function of the auditory pathways.
FAU - Lahin, T
AU  - Lahin T
AD  - Department of Otolaryngology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland.
FAU - Vasama, J P
AU  - Vasama JP
FAU - Makela, J P
AU  - Makela JP
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Acta Otolaryngol
JT  - Acta oto-laryngologica
JID - 0370354
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Auditory Cortex/*physiology
MH  - *Bell Palsy
MH  - Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Functional Laterality/physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Magnetoencephalography/methods
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
EDAT- 2000/04/25 09:00
MHDA- 2000/07/15 11:00
CRDT- 2000/04/25 09:00
PHST- 2000/04/25 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/07/15 11:00 [medline]
PHST- 2000/04/25 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/000164800760370828 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Otolaryngol. 2000 Jan;120(1):47-50. doi: 10.1080/000164800760370828.