J 2015

Altered intensity coding in the salicylate-overdose animal model of tinnitus

WAN, Ilynn, Ondřej POKORA, Tzaiwen CHIU, Petr LÁNSKÝ, Paul Waifung POON et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Altered intensity coding in the salicylate-overdose animal model of tinnitus

Authors

WAN, Ilynn (156 China), Ondřej POKORA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Tzaiwen CHIU (156 China), Petr LÁNSKÝ (203 Czech Republic) and Paul Waifung POON (156 China)

Edition

BioSystems, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2015, 0303-2647

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10101 Pure mathematics

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.495

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/15:00083312

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000366535200014

Keywords in English

Auditory evoked ponetial; Electrocorticogram; Fisher information; Salicylate-overdose; Tinnitus; Rat

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 24/3/2016 15:15, Ing. Andrea Mikešková

Abstract

V originále

Tinnitus is one of the leading disorders of hearing with no effective cure as its pathophysiological mechanisms remain unclear. While the sensitivity to sound is well-known to be affected, exactly how intensity coding per se is altered remains unclear. To address this issue, we used a salicylate-overdose animal model of tinnitus to measure auditory cortical evoked potentials at various stimulus levels, and analyzed on single-trial basis the response strength and its variance for the computation of the lower bound of Fisher information. Based on Fisher information profiles, we compared the precision or efficiency of intensity coding before and after salicylate-treatment. We found that after salicylate treatment, intensity coding was unexpectedly improved, rather than impaired. Also, the improvement varied in a sound-dependent way. The observed changes are likely due to some central compensatory mechanisms that are activated during tinnitus to bring out the full capacity of intensity coding which is expressed only in part under normal conditions.