Tinnitus is the perception of sound occurring without an external stimulus. Sound therapy is one of the most effective treatment techniques that have been employed by clinicians. To account for mechanisms of tinnitus generation and the clinical effects of sound therapy from the viewpoint of neural engineering, the authors have proposed a conceptual neural oscillator model with plasticity for th...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of  patch therapy on visual acuity in adults with ametropic amblyopia. methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed on 66 patients with unilateral ametropic amblyopia aged 9 to 35 years reffered to a clinic in shahroud. the patients were randomly assigned to two groups. in the treatment group, based on the visual acuity of the amblyopic eye, 3-6 hours da...

he sequential sound therapy is a treatment of the tinnitus with white noise that has some own characteristics. They are described the methodology, as well as their differences and similarities with the Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. The sequential sound therapy has been carried out to seventeen patients assisted during the year 2002. 26 generators of sounds adapted, of them, 22 generators of soun...

Background: There are several established, and an increasing number of putative, therapies using sound to treat tinnitus. There appear to be few guidelines for sound therapy selection and application. Aim: To review current approaches to personalizing sound therapy for tinnitus. Methods: A "state-of-the-art" review (Grant and Booth, 2009) was undertaken to answer the question: how do current so...

We report two cases of patients with schizoaffective disorder with treatment-refractory auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) who were successfully treated with sound therapy, which is effective to treat tinnitus. AVHs in both patients were alleviated within about one month, and no recurrence was reported for 31 and 17 months after the sound therapy together with medication. Further studies may...