Imaging brain structures in children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder Seminar
- Date:
- 1 December 2015
- Venue:
- To be confirmed
Event details
Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) is a complex condition affecting around 10% of children with hearing loss. Individuals with ANSD show a vast range of functional hearing abilities from normal hearing detection thresholds with minor difficulties hearing speech in noise, to no functional hearing or access to spoken language.
ANSD often results in fluctuating hearing loss and auditory temporal processing abnormalities leading to degraded and inconsistent auditory input. The abnormal subcortical transmission of sound experienced by children with ANSD may therefore result in the disruption of normal cortical development. This study investigates the effects of the disordered auditory input common in ANSD on neural development and brain structure using various methods including structural MRI and tests of auditory processing. Children with ANSD show differences in brain structure compared to normally hearing controls as well as impairment of temporal processing and binaural hearing.
Speaker information
Hannah Cooper , University College London. Hannah is a PhD student in the Developmental Imaging and Biophysics Section at the UCL Institute of Child Health and a Clinical Scientist in audiology at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.