The use of intracellular techniques in the study of the cochlear nucleus.

This paper describes part of the anatomy and physiology of the cochlear nucleus and some of the recent techniques developed to study the structure and function of the cochlear nucleus. The cochlear nucleus is the first region in the brain stem that receives information from the auditory nerve. The use of intracellular markers has made possible a new detail of description that should increase significantly our understanding of how the cochlear nucleus organizes the neural information transmitted to it from the auditory nerve.