Effects of Electrical Stimulation with a Cochlear Implant in Maintaining the Spiral Ganglion Neurons

Leake, P.A., G.T. Hradek and R.L. Snyder (1999) Chronic electrical stimulation by a cochlear implant promotes survival of spiral ganglion neurons after neonatal deafeness. J. Comp. Neurol. 412:543-562.

Leake, P.A., R.L. Snyder, S.J. Rebscher, G.T. Hradek, C. M. Moore and M. Vollmer. (2000) Long term effects of deafness and chronic electrical stimulation of the cochlea. In: Cochlear Implants. S.B. Waltzman and N. Cohen (eds.) Thieme, NY, pp.31-41.

Effects of Deafness and Electrical Stimulation with a Cochlear Implant on the Central Auditory Pathways

Vollmer, M., R.L. Snyder, P.A. Leake, C.M. Moore and S.J. Rebscher (1999) Temporal properties of chronic intracochlear electrical stimulation determine temporal resolution of neurons in the cat inferior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol. 82: 2883-2902.

Beitel,R.E., R.L. Snyder, C.E. Schreiner, M.W. Raggio and P.A. Leake (2000) Electrical cochlear stimulation: Comparisons between psychophysical and central auditory neuronal thresholds. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 2145-2162.

Leake, P.A., R.L. Snyder, S. J. Rebscher, C. M. Moore and M. Vollmer (2000) Plasticity in central representations in the inferior colliculus induced by chronic single- vs. two-channel electrical stimulation by a cochlear implant after neonatal deafness. Hearing Res. 147:221-241.

Snyder, R.L., M. Vollmer, C. M. Moore, S. Rebscher and P.A. Leake (2000) Responses of inferior colliculus neurons to amplitude modulated intracochlear electrical pulses in deaf cats. J. Neurophysiol. 84: 166-183

Cochlear Implant Electrode Development

Rebscher, S., R. Snyder, P. A. Leake. (2001) The effect of electrode configuration on threshold and selectivity of responses to intracochlear electrical stimulation. J. Acoust Soc Am. 109: 2035-2048.

Development and Organization of Cochlear Nerve Projections

Leake, P.A., A.L. Kuntz, C.M. Moore and P.L. Chambers. (1997) Cochlear pathology induced by aminoglycoside ototoxicity during postnatal maturation in cats. Hearing Res. 113: 117-132.

Snyder, R.L. and P.A. Leake (1997) Topography of spiral ganglion projections to cochlear nucleus during postnatal development in cats. J. Comp. Neurol. 384: 293-311.

Sato, M., P.A. Leake and G.T. Hradek (1999) Postnatal development of the organ of Corti in cats: A light microscopic morphometric study. Hearing Res. 127:1-13.

Leake, P.A., R.L. Snyder and G.T. Hradek (2002) Postnatal refinement of auditory nerve projections to the cochlear nucleus in cats. J. Comp Neurol. 448(1):6-27.

Plasticity in the Central Auditory System

Snyder, R.L., D.G. Sinex, E.Walsh, J.McGee. (2000) Acute spiral ganglion lesions change the tuning and topographic organization of inferiorcolliculus neurons. Hearing Res. 147: 200-220.

Snyder, R.L., and D.G. Sinex (2002) Immediate changes in tuning of inferior colliculus neurons following acute spiral ganglion lesions. J. Neurophysiol. 87: 434-452.