2008 Acker ARO_Feb15_v9

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  • Leah Acker
  • Christopher Shera
  • Jennifer Melcher
چکیده

8. Acknowledgments While most people with tinnitus have elevated hearing thresholds, the correspondence between tinnitus and hearing loss is far from perfect (Fowler, 1944, 1965; Heller and Bergman, 1953). People with normal thresholds can have tinnitus, and people with identical thresholds in each ear can have unilateral tinnitus. This imperfect correspondence might result because some people have tinnitus that arises solely from central nervous system pathology. However, it is also possible that some forms of tinnitus arise from peripheral auditory pathology that does not alter threshold sensitivity. The present study begins to explore the latter possibility by comparing the DPOAEs of people with tinnitus and normal audiograms to those of audiometrically-matched control subjects without tinnitus. While previous studies have compared the DPOAEs of tinnitus and non-tinnitus subjects with normal audiograms (Gouveris et al., 2005; Ozimek et al., 2006; Job et al., 2007), the present study is different in its examination of individual subject data, as well as group averages. Our preliminary findings suggest the DPOAEs of audiometrically-normal tinnitus subjects are, on average, abnormal, but that the abnormality may be present in only a subset of people with tinnitus.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008