ArticleAudiology research2018
Normal hearing young adults with mild tinnitus: Reduced inhibition as measured through sensory gating.
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- Combined Bifrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Auditory Stroop Training in Chronic Tinnitus.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023Article
- Testing A Hypothesis: Tinnitus Control by Enhancing Physiological Inhibition.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022Article
- Does insular cortex lesion cause tinnitus in rats?Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2022Article
- Association of Tinnitus with Depression in a Normal Hearing Population.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
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- Investigating functional changes in the brain to intermittently induced auditory illusions and its relevance to chronic tinnitus.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
- Loss of Cochlear Ribbon Synapse Is a Critical Contributor to Chronic Salicylate Sodium Treatment-Induced Tinnitus without Change Hearing Threshold.Neural plasticity · 2020Article
- New onset tinnitus in the absence of hearing changes following COVID-19 infection.American journal of otolaryngologyArticle
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Abstract
Decreased central inhibition, possibly related to hearing loss, may contribute to chronic tinnitus. However, many individuals with normal hearing thresholds report tinnitus, suggesting that the percept in this population may arise from sources other than peripheral deafferentation. One measure of inhibition is sensory gating. Sensory gating involves the suppression of non-novel input, and is measured through cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP) responses to paired stimuli. In typical gating function, amplitude suppression is observed in the second CAEP response when compared to the first CAEP response, illustrating inhibitory activity. Using this measure, we investigated central inhibitory processes in normal hearing young adults with and without mild tinnitus to determine whether inhibition may be a contributing factor to the tinnitus percept. Results showed that gating function was impaired in the tinnitus group, with the CAEP Pa component significantly correlated with tinnitus severity. Further exploratory analyses were conducted to evaluate variability in gating function within the tinnitus group, and findings showed that high CAEP amplitude suppressors demonstrated gating performance comparable to adults without tinnitus, while low amplitude suppressors exhibited atypical gating function.
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