Subject: Re: hearing sudden distortion effect From: Tom Brennan <g_brennantg@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 16:17:28 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Martin, in doing auditory reflex testing I tend to see hyper reflexes in many as well as unually long reflex presence times. Tom Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Martin Braun wrote: > Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:38:15 +0200 > From: Martin Braun <mb@xxxxxxxx> > To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: hearing sudden distortion effect > > Jim, Tom, and others, > > There is no established term for this. One might call it a phenomenon of > transient hyperacusis. Tom's suggestion that endolymphatic hydrops (EH) may > be the cause seems plausible. It is known from research in Meniere's disease > (MD) that EH precedes MD and often remains subclinical (not leading to MD). > It may cause transient vestibular or cochlear distortions. The combination > of loud sound with EH is a strong candidate for causing cochlear distortion. > The described case need not be a dramatic sign at all. Ear plugs at hand in > noisy settings might be all that is needed. > > Martin > > --------------------------------- > > Martin Braun > Neuroscience of Music > S-66492 Värmskog > Sweden > http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/index.htm > mb@xxxxxxxx > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > From: Tom Brennan > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2016 5:17 PM > To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: hearing sudden distortion effect >