ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2017
Neurofeedback for Tinnitus Treatment - Review and Current Concepts.
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- Smartphone Apps in the Context of Tinnitus: Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Pooled it
- Altered parietal multisensory integration in chronic tinnitus during closed-loop real-time fMRI auditory downregulation.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Trial
- Investigating the Efficacy of an Individualized Alpha/Delta Neurofeedback Protocol in the Treatment of Chronic Tinnitus.Neural plasticity · 2019Trial
- [Research on auditory neurofeedback technology and its multi-disciplinary applications].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2026Review
- Tinnitus.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- EEG-Based Multifocal Tomographic Neurofeedback in Older Individuals With Chronic Tinnitus Does Not Lead to Persistent Electrophysiological Changes.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Frontal gamma-alpha ratio reveals neural oscillatory mechanism of attention shifting in tinnitus.iScience · 2025Article
- Aesthetics, illusion of success and age interactions: disentangling effects in the closed-loop design with sham neurofeedback training.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Tinnitus Guidelines and Their Evidence Base.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Neurofeedback for tinnitus treatment: an innovative method with promising potential.Brain communications · 2023Article
- EEG spectral and microstate analysis originating residual inhibition of tinnitus induced by tailor-made notched music training.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Does it matter what is trained? A randomized controlled trial evaluating the specificity of alpha/delta ratio neurofeedback in reducing tinnitus symptoms.Brain communications · 2023Article
- Infra-low frequency neurofeedback training in Dravet syndrome: A case study.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2023Article
- Recovering Hidden Responder Groups in Individuals Receiving Neurofeedback for Tinnitus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Emerging Topics in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Tinnitus.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021Article
- Accounting for Heterogeneity: Mixed-Effects Models in Resting-State EEG Data in a Sample of Tinnitus Sufferers.Brain topography · 2020Article
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- Electrophysiological correlates of focused attention on low- and high-distressed tinnitus.PloS one · 2020Article
- Combining neurofeedback with source estimation: Evaluation of an sLORETA neurofeedback protocol for chronic tinnitus treatment.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2020Article
- An association between marijuana use and tinnitus.American journal of otolaryngologyArticle
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Abstract
An effective treatment to completely alleviate chronic tinnitus symptoms has not yet been discovered. However, recent developments suggest that neurofeedback (NFB), a method already popular in the treatment of other psychological and neurological disorders, may provide a suitable alternative. NFB is a non-invasive method generally based on electrophysiological recordings and visualizing of certain aspects of brain activity as positive or negative feedback that enables patients to voluntarily control their brain activity and thus triggers them to unlearn typical neural activity patterns related to tinnitus. The purpose of this review is to summarize and discuss previous findings of neurofeedback treatment studies in the field of chronic tinnitus. In doing so, also an overview about the underlying theories of tinnitus emergence is presented and results of resting-state EEG and MEG studies summarized and critically discussed. To date, neurofeedback as well as electrophysiological tinnitus studies lack general guidelines that are crucial to produce more comparable and consistent results. Even though neurofeedback has already shown promising results for chronic tinnitus treatment, further research is needed in order to develop more sophisticated protocols that are able to tackle the individual needs of tinnitus patients more specifically.
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