Auditory Discrimination Therapy (adt) for Tinnitus Management: Clinical Trial
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BACKGROUND.Neuroimaging research has showed the reorganisation of the cortical tonotopic map in tinnitus patients. The representation of the tinnitus frequency has shifted to the adjacent areas due to the lack of afferences from the damaged cochlea. Severity has been correlated with the magnitude of the shift. Auditory discrimination training proposed by H. Flor in 2004, designs a procedure to increase cortical areas responding to trained frequencies (close to tinnitus pitch) and to shrink the neighbouring ones (tinnitus pitch).
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