chapter 1 Auditory Communication among Adults / chapter 2 Behavioral Assessment of Hearing in Mice / chapter 3 Focus: Sound-Localization Acuity Changes with Age in C57BL/6J Mice / chapter 4 Noninvasive Assessment of Auditory Function in Mice: Auditory Brainstem Response and Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions / chapter 5 The Acoustic Startle Response: Reflex Elicitation and Reflex Modification by Preliminary Stimuli / chapter 6 Modulation of the Acoustic Startle Response by Background Sound in C57BL/6J Mice / chapter 7 Focus: Learning and the Auditory System — Fear-Potentiated Startle Studies / part Section II / chapter 8 The Outer and Middle Ear / chapter 9 The Development of the GABAergic Innervation in the Organ of Corti of the Mouse / chapter 10 Development and Neuronal Innervation of the Organ of Corti / chapter 11 The Role of Neurotrophic Factors in the Development and Maintenance of Innervation in the Mouse Inner Ear / chapter 12 Preparation and Evaluation of the Mouse Temporal Bone / chapter 13 Cochlear Hair Cell Densities and Inner-Ear Staining Techniques / chapter 14 Effects of Exposure to an Augmented Acoustic Environment on the Mouse Auditory System / chapter 15 Cochlear Blood Flow / chapter 16 Development of the Endbulbs of Held / part Section III / chapter 17 Focus: Diversity of the Mouse Central Auditory System / chapter 18 Neuroanatomy of the Central Auditory System / chapter 19 Cytoarchitectonic Atlas of the Cochlear Nucleus of the Mouse / chapter 20 Functional Circuitry of the Cochlear Nucleus: In Vitro Studies in Slices / chapter 21 Focus: GABA and Glycine Neurotransmission in Mouse Auditory Brainstem Structures / chapter 22 Calcium Binding Proteins in the Central Auditory System: Modulation by Noise Exposure and Aging / chapter 23 Auditory Neurons in the Reticular Formation of C57BL/6J Mice / chapter 24 Aging of the Mouse Central Auditory System / chapter 25 Focus: Elicitation and Inhibition of the Startle Reflex by Acoustic Transients: Studies of Age-Related Changes in Temporal Processing / part Section IV / chapter 26 Human Hereditary Hearing Impairment: Research Progress Fueled by the Human Genome Project and Mouse Models / chapter 27 Genetic Analyses of Non-Transgenic Mouse Mutations Affecting Ear Morphology or Function / chapter 28 Inbred Strains of Mice for Genetics of Hearing in Mammals: Searching for Genes for Hearing Loss / chapter 29 Mapping the Genes for the Acoustic Startle Response (ASR) and Prepulse Inhibition of the ASR in the BXD Recombinant Inbred Series: Effect of High-Frequency Hearing Loss and Cochlear Pathology / chapter 30 Transgenic Mice: Genome Manipulation and Induced Mutations / part Section V / chapter 31 Noise-Induced Hearing Loss / chapter 32 The Role of Superoxide Dismutase in Age-Related and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Clues from SOD1 Knockout Mice / chapter 33 Mouse Models for Immunologic Diseases of the Auditory System / chapter 34 Focus: Muscular Dystrophy Mouse Models and Hearing Deficits / chapter 35 Hypothyroidism in the Tshr Mutant Mouse / chapter 36 Mouse Models for Usher and Alport Syndromes / chapter 37 Preventing Sensory Loss in a Mouse Model of Lysosomal Storage Disease / chapter 38 Auditory Brainstem Responses in CBA Mice and in Mice with Deletion of the RAB3A Gene / chapter 39 Focus: Mutations of the Brn4/Pou3f4 Locus