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Responses of neurons in the feline inferior colliculus to modulated electrical stimuli applied on and within the ventral cochlear nucleus; Implications for an advanced auditory brainstem implant.

Abstract：

:Auditory brainstem implants (ABIs) can restore useful hearing to persons with deafness who cannot benefit from cochlear implants. However, the quality of hearing restored by ABIs rarely is comparable to that provided by cochlear implants in persons for whom those are appropriate. In an animal model, we evaluated elements of a prototype of an ABI in which the functions of macroelectrodes on the surface of the dorsal cochlear nucleus would be integrated with the function of multiple penetrating microelectrodes implanted into the ventral cochlear nucleus. The surface electrodes would convey most of the range of loudness percepts while the intranuclear microelectrodes would sharpen and focus pitch percepts. In the present study, stimulating electrodes were implanted chronically on the surface of the animal's dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) and also within their ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN). Recording microelectrodes were implanted into the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICC). The electrical stimuli were sinusoidally modulated stimulus pulse trains applied on the DCN and within the VCN. Temporal encoding of neuronal responses was quantified as vector strength (VS) and as full-cycle rate of neuronal activity in the ICC. VS and full-cycle AP rate were measured for 4 stimulation modes; continuous and transient amplitude modulation of the stimulus pulse trains, each delivered via the macroelectrode on the surface of the DCN and then by the intranuclear penetrating microelectrodes. In the proposed clinical device the functions of the surface and intranuclear microelectrodes could best be integrated if there is minimal variation in the neuronal responses across the range of modulation depth, modulation frequencies, and across the four stimulation modes. In this study VS did vary as much as 34% across modulation frequency and modulation depth within a stimulation mode, and up to 40% between modulation modes. However, these intra- and inter-mode variances differed for different stimulation rates, and at 500 Hz the inter-mode differences in VS and across the range of modulation frequencies and modulation depths was = 24% and the intra-modal differences were = 15%. The findings were generally similar for rate encoding of modulation depth, although the depth of transient amplitude modulation delivered by the surface electrode was weakly encoded as full-cycle rate. Overall, our findings support the concept of a clinical ABI that employs surface stimulation and intranuclear microstimulation in an integrated manner.

journal_name

Hear Res

journal_title

Hearing research

authors

McCreery D,Yadev K,Han M

doi

10.1016/j.heares.2018.03.009

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-06-01 00:00:00

pages

85-97

eissn

0378-5955

issn

1878-5891

pii

S0378-5955(17)30512-9

journal_volume

363

pub_type

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Responses of neurons in the feline inferior colliculus to modulated electrical stimuli applied on and within the ventral cochlear nucleus; Implications for an advanced auditory brainstem implant.