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Increased Threshold and Reduced Firing Rate of Auditory Cortex Neurons after Cochlear Implant Insertion

Elie Partouche
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Victor Adenis
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The cochlear implant (CI) is the most successful neuroprosthesis allowing thousands of patients with profound hearing loss to recover speech understanding. Recently, cochlear implants have been proposed to subjects with residual hearing and, in these cases, shorter CIs were implanted. To be successful, it is crucial to preserve the patient's remaining hearing abilities after the implantation. Here, we quantified the effects of CI insertion on the responses of auditory cortex neurons in anesthetized guinea pigs. The responses of auditory cortex neurons were determined before and after the insertion of a 300 µm diameter CI (six stimulating electrodes, length 6 mm). Immediately after CI insertion there was a 5 to 15 dB increase in the threshold for cortical neurons from the middle to the high frequencies, accompanied by a decrease in the evoked firing rate. Analyzing the characteristic frequency (CF) values revealed that in large number of cases, the CFs obtained after insertion were lower than before. These effects were not detected in the control animals. These results indicate that there is a small but immediate cortical hearing loss after CI insertion, even with short length CIs. Therefore, efforts should be made to minimize the damages during CI insertion to preserve the cortical responses to acoustic stimuli.
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hal-03550408 , version 1 (01-02-2022)

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Elie Partouche, Victor Adenis, Dan Gnansia, Pierre Stahl, Jean-Marc Edeline. Increased Threshold and Reduced Firing Rate of Auditory Cortex Neurons after Cochlear Implant Insertion. Brain Sciences, 2022, 12 (2), pp.205. ⟨10.3390/brainsci12020205⟩. ⟨hal-03550408⟩
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