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Written for graduate students and practicing clinicians, the New Handbook for Auditory Evoked Responsesis an up-to-date and comprehensive source of practical information about auditory evoked responses, from electro-cochleography to cortical responses. Authored by a clinical audiologist who records auditory evoked responses daily in his clinical practice, this book maintains a consistent writing-style and difficulty level from beginning to end. The content is of direct interest to clinical audiologists and others involved in the clinical measurement of auditory evoked responses. The book includes an extensive review of test principles, protocols, and procedures required for clinical application of auditory evoked responses. The practical coverage of material includes guidelines for trouble-shooting and solving problems commonly encountered in the field. Principles common to different auditory evoked responses, including anatomy and physiology and general measurement principles (Chs. 1-3), are introduced, allowing readers to learn the material from only this source without having to purchase an additional book to master the basics.At least one chapter is devoted to each major auditory evoked response, beginning with cochlear responses and continuing to the cortical evoked responses, electric evoked responses, and non-auditory responses (Chs. 4-16). Readers are taught to record, analyze and interpret responses for various patient populations (Chs. 4-16). Includes readable and clinically oriented reviews of extensive literature on complex responses, such as the P300 and MMN (Chs. 4-16), making it the only book of its kind to present a balanced coverage of evoked responses recorded from the entire auditory system (cochlea to cortex). The literature on auditory evoked responses in diverse pathologies is reviewed and related to back to clinical practice so that readers do not have to locate additional journal articles (Chs. 4-16). Important concepts, including the effects of measurement parameters and pathologies on auditory evoked responses, are illustrated through hundreds of clear drawings, to help enhance learning (Chs. 4-16).

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 3 reviews)

Proof Read Please! by Dawn M. Young (Boise, ID)

3 Stars
September 19, 2008
This book is a great reference but I feel, at times, like I am just reading a first draft. There are so many misspellings and grammatical errors that it is difficult to trust the contents of the book.

Excellent and Comprehensive by B. Shethna (Chicago, IL United States)

5 Stars
September 17, 2008
I am an audiologist and have graduated from my master's program 10 years ago. I read Dr. Hall's book (previous books on AERs) as a part of both my undergraduate and graduate degree classwork, and now have read this book, almost cover to cover for my AuD degree program. I have even had the wonderful opportunity to have Dr. Hall as a class instructor. This book is coherent, clear and very well organized. It is a good idea to stay focused while reading and not get fixated on a couple sentences that may seem to elude your thought process. By the end of the book, if you have been paying attention, you will have a clear understanding of recording techniques, rationales for use, the different "time windows" for all the evoked responses discussed, impact of stimulus and measurement parameters, subject parameters and the correlation between disease processes and reponse parameters recorded. I read this book after 10 years of NOT doing evoked response testing and there was nothing that seemed unclear. There are a couple editing errors, which if you have been paying attention to the themes in this book, and his thought process in differentiating between early vs late reponses and how they are impacted by the test parameters, you will be able to identify these editing errors yourself, as I have. I also think those comments about Dr. Hall's understanding of where graduate students are in their ability to either understand evoked potentials or the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system are completely misplaced. I have still to meet a professor so respectful of his students, and humble and candid in his responses to even the silliest of questions. He tries hard to explain to you if you fail to understand, in a very simple language, how to interpret evoked responses. I suggest anyone having difficulty getting through this book, would benefit from a class in evoked responses and should find a mentor, co-worker, or some other resource to help them navigate this book. I am sure seeking the author out through email to resolve certain questions might not be a bad idea either. Either way, if you want a desk reference for Auditory Evoked responses, let this be it. It isn't bed time reading for sure, but then the expectation at the level of a doctorate in audiology is that you will be required to review fairly advanced material in order to get a good understanding of the subject and be deserving of the title of doctor.

Not a beginner's book by S. L. Callaway (Grand Rapids, USA)

2 Stars
January 09, 2008
Although I appreciate Steven D. Smith's rave review of this book, I do not share his opinion. I am a student of Audiology and I bought this book for a class on auditory evoked potentials. Most audiology students do not have a background in neuroscience and biology, and this book assumes both. Actually, as of now, I cannot for the life of me figure out how the structure of this book is conducive to beginner learning. Take Chapter 2, second paragraph: "The distribution of current flow in the extracellular (extraneuronal) space is a potential field. The transmembrane ionic current flow of the cell, in the case of evoked responses the neuron, is the origin of voltage potentials that underlie AERs". For beginners? I think not. If Dr. Hall would like to make this book more accessible and less feared by students, he might want to dumb things down a bit and not assume that we know quite as much. Dr. Hall writes that the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system is too complex to describe in this book, but then proceeds to assume that we somehow understand all of these complexities anyways. Since the chapter is called Anatomy and Physiology Principles of Auditory Evoked Responses, I guess I would expect a bit more than a disclaimer followed by assumptions of vast amounts of knowledge. To complete the contrasts of this chapter, the author has included a picture of the outer, middle, and inner ear with labels (that are too small to read, by the way). Let's just say, that if we are Au.D. students in an AER course, Dr. Hall can safely assume, that we at least know this! My suggestion for Dr. Hall is that he recruit a group of Audiology students and clinicians to proof-read his book. There is no doubt that this book is full of useful and intricate information. I just wish it was more accessible to the group of people who are most likely to read it. Heck, if he's interested, I'd even help him! AER's are a difficult topic that requires all Audiology students to think within a completely different set of parameters. Let's start from the top, rather than the middle. Durrant's articles helped me substantially more to understand these concepts.

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