Subject: Re: EOAE From: "Harriet B. Jacobster, AuD" <hjacobster@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:07 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030500080606050706070305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hate to be simple, but this sounds more like a stapedial myoclonus rather than an actual OAE. JMHO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harriet B. Jacobster, AuD Board Certified in Audiology David John SMith wrote: > I've finally heard an otoacoustic emission... It sounded like a series > of 5 or 6 soft, slow (about 500ms onset and decay) bell tones. > > It occurred under the same conditions as the clicks I hear fairly > often while going to sleep - listening to music in the right ear, the > clicks > (and the oae) appear in the left ear which is occluded by a pillow. > > The clicking sounds, which occur roughly at the onsets of voice > band information in the music, are accompanied by the unmistakable > physical sensation of a muscle spasm. That is, I would feel them even if > I had not heard them. This leads me to believe that the clicks are caused > by muscles. > > The OAE was obvious. It was also synchronous and in perfect harmony > with the tones presented to my right ear. It seems likely to me that > the OAE > would be created by the muscle causing the clicks, rather than a > different > mechanism inside the cochlea. > > Comments? > > Dave --------------030500080606050706070305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ccffff" text="#000066"> Hate to be simple, but this sounds more like a stapedial myoclonus rather than an actual OAE.<br> <br> JMHO.<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> Harriet B. Jacobster, AuD<br> Board Certified in Audiology<br> <br> <br> <br> David John SMith wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20100405222320.0D29F874B@xxxxxxxx" type="cite">I've finally heard an otoacoustic emission... It sounded like a series <br> of 5 or 6 soft, slow (about 500ms onset and decay) bell tones. <br> <br> It occurred under the same conditions as the clicks I hear fairly <br> often while going to sleep - listening to music in the right ear, the clicks <br> (and the oae) appear in the left ear which is occluded by a pillow.<br> <br> The clicking sounds, which occur roughly at the onsets of voice <br> band information in the music, are accompanied by the unmistakable<br> physical sensation of a muscle spasm. That is, I would feel them even if <br> I had not heard them. This leads me to believe that the clicks are caused <br> by muscles.<br> <br> The OAE was obvious. It was also synchronous and in perfect harmony <br> with the tones presented to my right ear. It seems likely to me that the OAE <br> would be created by the muscle causing the clicks, rather than a different <br> mechanism inside the cochlea.<br> <br> Comments?<br> <br> Dave<br> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------030500080606050706070305--