ArticleScientific reports2016
Tinnitus is associated with reduced sound level tolerance in adolescents with normal audiograms and otoacoustic emissions.
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- The daily auditory environments of people with tinnitus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Hyperacusis Assessment Questionnaire-A New Tool Assessing Hyperacusis in Subjects with Tinnitus.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Auditory perceptual discomfort and low-hearing tolerance in the first episode psychosis.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2022Article
- Are Electrocochleographic Changes an Early Sign of Cochlear Synaptopathy? A Prospective Study in Tinnitus Patients with Normal Hearing.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Ultra-High Frequency Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions for Detection of Hearing Loss and Tinnitus.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Relation of Sound Level Tolerance to Tinnitus Ears in Human.The journal of international advanced otology · 2022Article
- Decreased Sound Tolerance in Tinnitus Patients.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Reducing the Impact of Tinnitus on Children and Adolescents' Lives: A Mixed-Methods Concept Mapping Study.International journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Different cochleovestibular manifestations and outcomes in patients diagnosed with dengue.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology · 2020Article
- Fluctuations in Subjective Tinnitus Ratings Over Time: Implications for Clinical Research.Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology · 2020Article
- Individual Reliability of the Standard Clinical Method vs Patient-Centered Tinnitus Likeness Rating for Assessment of Tinnitus Pitch and Loudness Matching.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2018Article
- Normal hearing young adults with mild tinnitus: Reduced inhibition as measured through sensory gating.Audiology research · 2018Article
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- A Cross-Sectional Study of the Prevalence and Factors Associated With Tinnitus and/or Hyperacusis in Children.Ear and hearingArticle
- Comparison of Amplitude Modulated Sounds and Pure Tones at the Tinnitus Frequency: Residual Tinnitus Suppression and Stimulus Evaluation.Trends in hearingArticle
- Familial misophonia or selective sound sensitivity syndrome : evidence for autosomal dominant inheritance?Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngologyArticle
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Abstract
Recent neuroscience research suggests that tinnitus may reflect synaptic loss in the cochlea that does not express in the audiogram but leads to neural changes in auditory pathways that reduce sound level tolerance (SLT). Adolescents (N = 170) completed a questionnaire addressing their prior experience with tinnitus, potentially risky listening habits, and sensitivity to ordinary sounds, followed by psychoacoustic measurements in a sound booth. Among all adolescents 54.7% reported by questionnaire that they had previously experienced tinnitus, while 28.8% heard tinnitus in the booth. Psychoacoustic properties of tinnitus measured in the sound booth corresponded with those of chronic adult tinnitus sufferers. Neither hearing thresholds (≤15 dB HL to 16 kHz) nor otoacoustic emissions discriminated between adolescents reporting or not reporting tinnitus in the sound booth, but loudness discomfort levels (a psychoacoustic measure of SLT) did so, averaging 11.3 dB lower in adolescents experiencing tinnitus in the acoustic chamber. Although risky listening habits were near universal, the teenagers experiencing tinnitus and reduced SLT tended to be more protective of their hearing. Tinnitus and reduced SLT could be early indications of a vulnerability to hidden synaptic injury that is prevalent among adolescents and expressed following exposure to high level environmental sounds.
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