MODULE 12
SUGGESTED READING
The Auditory System
Digital:
1) Neuroscience Online: an electronic textbook for the neurosciences. This is a free educational resource provided by the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. It is really superb and we urge you to make use of it. The online version works fine on computers, but since visualization of the figures requires a flash player, they are absent when the material is viewed using an Ipad.
Section 2, Chapter 10: Vestibular System: Structure and Function
10.1 Vestibular System
10.2 Vestibulo-occular Reflex, Nystagmus, and Caloric Testing
Section 2, Chapter 11: Vestibular System: Pathways and Reflexes
11.1 Overview of Ascending and Descending Pathways
11.2 Vestibular Connections to the Oculomotor Nuclei
11.3 Vestibulo-cerebellar Connections
11.4 Lateral and Medial Vestibulospinal Tracts
Section 2, Chapter 12: Auditory System: Structure and Function
12.1 The Vertebrate Hair Cell: Mechanoreceptor Mechanism, Tip Links, K+ and Ca2+ Channels
12.2 Sound: Intensity, Frequency, Outer and Middle Ear Mechanisms, Impedance Matching by Area and Lever Ratios
12.3 The Cochlea: three scalae, basilar membrane, movement of Hair Cells
12.4 Tonotopic Organization
12.5 The range of Sounds to which We Respond; the Neural Tuning Curves
Section 2, Chapter 13: Auditory System: Pathways and Reflexes
13.1 Connections in the Central Auditory System
2) The Nervous System in Action by Michael D. Mann. Click on MANN TEXT to access the internet version of this excellent textbook. The home page provides links to individual chapters and also offers PDF links, making it easy to print copies of the text. You can view the material directly on your computer screen, but print out a copy if possible. The reason to do so is that we will refer to specific pages in the text, and these are not shown in the computer screen version. In Chapter 5 see the following:
Chapter 8 Audition
Chapter 9 The Vestibular System
1) Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases by Hal Blumenfeld.
----- The auditory pathway is described on Pages 485-9.
----- For a discussion of hearing loss, read Pages 491-2.
----- For a discussion of the processing of language information, read Pages 827-32.
2) Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience by M. J. Turlough Fitzgerald, Gregory Gruener andEstomih Mtui. Fifth Edition.
----- The auditory system covered in Chapter 20, starting on Page 239.
----- The auditory cortex is discussed briefly on Page 322 of Chapter 29.
3) Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications by Duane E. Haines. Third Edition.
- - - The cochlear component of the vestibulocochlear nerve is discussed on Page 219.
- - - The auditory system is considered in Chapter 21, starting on Page 335. The treatment is extensive and detailed, but excellent. In addition to the anatomy of the auditory pathway (see Figure 21-10), sound transduction, tuning curves, brainstem evoked responses and more are considered.
4) Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessel.
----- See Chapter 30.
----- For a discussion of hair cells, read Chapter 31.
The Vestibular System
1) Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases by Hal Blumenfeld.
----- For pathways, see Pages 489-491.
----- For a discussion of dizziness and vertigo, see Pages .492-4.
2) Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience by M. J. Turlough Fitzgerald, Gregory Gruener and Estomih Mtui. Fifth Edition.
----- The vestibular system is taken up in Chapter 19, starting on Page 233.
3) Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications by Duane E. Haines. Third Edition.
- - - The vestibular component of the vestibulocochlear nerve is discussed on Page 220.
- - - The vestibular system is covered in Chapter 22, starting on Page 351. Like the auditory chapter, the vestibular one deals extensively with the both the physiology and the anatomy of the system.
4) Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessel.
----- Chapter 40.
5) Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fourth Edition by Keith L. Moore and Arthur F. Dalley.
----- The section on the vestibulocochlear nerve is brief but good. It deals with the function and peripheral anatomy of the nerve and starts on Page 1103.
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