Tinnitus is a phantom sensation of sound in the absence of external stimulation. However, external stimulation, particularly electric stimulation via a cochlear implant, has been shown to suppress tinnitus. Different from traditional methods of delivering speech sounds or high-rate (>2000 Hz) stimulation, the present study found a unique unilaterally-deafened cochlear implant subject whose tinn...

At the ear, nose, and throat clinic of the Third Medical Faculty at Charles University and at the Psychiatry Department of the Institute for Further Education of Physicians in Prague, we examined 25 patients with tinnitus accompanied by psychiatric disturbances and followed them up for at least 6 months. Psychological changes in tinnitus patients occur in a characteristic chronological successi...

Subjective tinnitus is an auditory phantom perception that may arise from any aberrant signal within the auditory system. Further processing of this signal and the conscious perception of tinnitus takes place in the cerebral cortex. A few functional brain-imaging studies have been performed to elucidate the underlying cerebral mechanisms of this perception. These studies mostly concern rare typ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Tinnitus is a common symptom associated with hearing loss and its related disorders. Awareness of audiological features is of paramount importance for effective management of tinnitus. This study aimed to evaluate audiological characteristics of tinnitus in patients referring to otolaryngology clinics of Babol, Iran. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted on...

introduction: we investigated the effect of intratympanic dexamethasone on control of tinnitus and hearing loss in patients with meniere’s disease.  materials and methods: 100 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of meniere’s disease according to the 1995 criteria of the american academy of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery (aao–hns) who remained symptomatic despite medical therapy were a...

Abstract Purpose of Review The current review aims to explore recent studies that have illustrated a link between neuroinflammation and tinnitus the consequential effect on neuronal functioning. We parallels amongst pain pathologies novel treatment option. Recent Findings Genetic pharmacological blockage pro-inflammatory cytokines mitigates physiological behavioral phenotype in acute rodent mod...

The purposes of these investigations were to (1) evaluate tinnitus loudness measures of unskilled normal listeners asked to imagine that they are experiencing a constant monaural tonal tinnitus and (2) compare the performance of these listeners to that of a sample of patients with tinnitus. Subgroups of 24 patients participated in two investigations. Results suggest that (1) normal subjects ask...

Cochlear implantation is a well-accepted method of aural rehabilitation in deaf or severely hearing-impaired adults and children. A majority of patients not only suffer from hearing impairment but from tinnitus. The high rate of preoperative tinnitus in adults (68.1%) stands in contrast to assumed lower rates in children. Unknown are such factors as how tinnitus develops in children, how they r...

PURPOSE To assess the prevalence of tinnitus and possible association with hearing loss, diabetes mellitus and hypertension in elderly. METHODS Cross-sectional study with individuals older than 60 years who underwent audiological evaluation (pure tone audiometry and history) and answered a comorbidity questionnaire. We evaluated 519 subjects of both genders with a median age of 69 years. Indi...

In the face of finite resources, allocations of research and health-care funding are dependent upon high-quality evidence. Historically, tinnitus has been the poor cousin of hearing science, with low-quality clinical research providing unreliable estimates of effect and with devices marketed for tinnitus without strong evidence for those product claims. However, the tinnitus field is changing. ...