BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to evaluate the relationship between tinnitus and the level of anxiety and depression experienced by subjective tinnitus patients, and to determine the effect of the level of anxiety and depression to the results of tinnitus treatment. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 104 patients were included in this study. All the patients conducted Tinn...

OBJECTIVE Subjective tinnitus is hypothesized to arise from aberrant neural activity; however, its neural bases are poorly understood. To identify aberrant neural networks involved in chronic tinnitus, we compared the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) patterns of tinnitus patients and healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS Resting-state fMRI measurements were obtaine...

BACKGROUND Tinnitus is the perception of hearing a sound for which there is no external acoustic source. It is often associated with sudden, temporary hearing loss and has a clear impact on a patient's quality of life. Despite numerous trials, there are no treatments that can be considered well established in terms of providing replicable long-term tinnitus reduction. Complementary and alternat...

Background: Menieres Disease (MD) is a chronic, non-life threatening inner ear disease, with attacks of disabling vertigo, progressive hearing loss, and tinnitus as the major symptoms. All three symptoms, separately or in combination, cause great distress have considerable impact on quality life patients. Objective: Aim this study was to find out whether subjective assessment objective will be ...

UNLABELLED Hearing loss and tinnitus impact the lives of workers in every instance of their lives. AIM This paper aims to investigate the existence of a dose-response relationship between hearing loss and tinnitus by determining whether higher levels of hearing loss can be associated with increased tinnitus-related discomfort. MATERIALS AND METHOD This cross-sectional case study assessed 28...

UNLABELLED Tinnitus is characterized by the perception of sound in the absence of an external auditory stimulus. The network connectivity of auditory and non-auditory brain structures associated with emotion, memory and attention are functionally altered in debilitating tinnitus. Current studies suggest that tinnitus results from neuroplastic changes in the frontal and limbic temporal regions. ...

OBJECTIVE To explore patient perceived benefits of acupuncture for tinnitus. DESIGN Controlled n=1 trials, with two phases A and B. SUBJECTS Six patients with tinnitus. OUTCOME MEASURES Primary outcome was Daily Diary records related to four tinnitus symptoms: loudness of tinnitus; pitch of tinnitus; waking hours affected with tinnitus; quality of sleep. Secondary outcomes were the Tinnit...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the audiologic and clinical characteristics of the tinnitus in single-sided deafness (SSD) patients and to determine whether tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) is beneficial to those patients who suffer from tinnitus with SSD. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-six tinnitus patients with unilateral sensorineural profound hearing loss were included ...