Journal Reviews

The basis of auditory processing disorder: what can we learn from corticals?

5 January 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, Paediatric ENT | Auditory perception, Auditory processing disorder, Child, Cortical auditory evoked potential, Hearing

Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a poorly understood, heterogenous and surprisingly common condition. It manifests as a perceptual difficulty in centrally processing auditory information. Diagnosis is usually based on a variety of behavioural tests involving verbal and non-verbal assessments. In...

CATE in people with dementia

7 January 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult | aged care home, Cortical automatic threshold estimation, auditory evoked potential, dementia, hearing evaluation, hearing impairment, pure-tone audiometry

Behavioural hearing tests may be difficult to perform for people with dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate if the cortical automatic threshold estimation (CATE) may be used as an alternative to the pure tone audiometry test. Six...