ArticleIEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine2019
Implementation and Long-Term Evaluation of a Hearing Aid Supported Tinnitus Treatment Using Notched Environmental Sounds.
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- Notch-induced lateral inhibition compared to standard amplification lateral inhibition therapy for the treatment of chronic tinnitus: A randomised controlled trial.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Trial
- Linear modeling of brain activity during selective attention to continuous speech: the critical role of the N1 effect in event-related potentials to acoustic edges.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2025Article
- A Review of Auditory Rehabilitation Uses in Hearing Aid-Based Therapy for Tinnitus (2013-2024).Seminars in hearing · 2024Review
- Should Tinnitus Patients with Subclinical Hearing Impairment Be Offered Hearing Aids? A Comparison of Tinnitus Mitigation Following 3 Months Hearing Aid Use in Individuals with and without Clinical Hearing Impairment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Preventive Effects of Ginkgo-Extract EGb 761Nutrients · 2022Article
- Spectrally Matched Near-Threshold Noise for Subjective Tinnitus Loudness Attenuation Based on Stochastic Resonance.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Howling Detection and Suppression Based on Segmented Notch Filtering.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Hearing Aid Fitting in Tinnitus: A Scoping Review of Methodological Aspects and Effect on Tinnitus Distress and Perception.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Notched Sound Alleviates Tinnitus by Reorganization Emotional Center.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- A State-of-Art Review of Digital Technologies for the Next Generation of Tinnitus Therapeutics.Frontiers in digital health · 2021Review
- Auditory Neural Plasticity in Tinnitus Mechanisms and Management.Neural plasticity · 2020Review
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Abstract
Recent work has shown that sharp spectral edges in acoustic stimuli might have advantageous effects in the treatment of tonal tinnitus. In the course of this paper, we evaluate the long-term effects of spectrally notched hearing aids on the subjective tinnitus distress. By merging recent experimental work with a computational tinnitus model, we modified the commercially available behind-the-ear hearing aids so that a frequency band of 0.5 octaves, centered on the patient's individual tinnitus frequency, was blocked out. Those hearing aids employ a steep notch filter that filters environmental sounds to suppress the tinnitus-related changes in neural firing by lateral inhibition. The computational model reveals a renormalization of pathologically increased neural response reliability and synchrony in response to spectrally modified input. The target group, fitted with spectrally notched hearing aids, was matched with a comparable control group, fitted with standard hearing aids of the same type but without a notch filter. We analyze the subjective self-assessment by tinnitus questionnaires, and we monitor the objective distress correlates in auditory evoked response phase data. Both, subjective and objective results show a noticeable trend of a larger therapeutic benefit for notched hearing correction.
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