
Tinnitus - An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Individualized Treatment
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- Intro
- Tinnitus - An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Individualized Treatment: From Heterogeneity to Personalized Medicine
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Targeting tinnitus heterogeneity
- 2. Methodological aspects in measuring heterogeneous samples
- 3. Toward personalized and personalizable approaches for tinnitus treatment
- References
- Chapter 1: Tinnitus and tinnitus disorder: Theoretical and operational definitions (an international multidisciplinary pr ...
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Current situation: Commonly used definitions, characteristics and diagnostic classification
- 2.1. Why is there no consensus definition?
- 2.2. The sensory and affective dimensions of tinnitus
- 3. Requirements for a definition of tinnitus
- 3.1. Tinnitus: Symptom or disorder
- 3.2. Relevant aspects for the definition and diagnostic classification of tinnitus
- 3.2.1. Objective and subjective tinnitus
- 3.3. Acute and chronic tinnitus
- 4. Measurement of tinnitus
- 5. Proposal for diagnostic criteria of tinnitus and tinnitus disorder
- 6. Conclusion
- 7. Outlook and future perspectives
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2: Cochlear implantation for patients with tinnitus - A systematic review
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Protocol and registration
- 2.2. Search strategy
- 2.3. Study selection
- 2.4. Data collection and analysis
- 2.4.1. Quality assessment of the studies
- 2.4.2. Data extraction and synthesis
- 2.4.3. Outcome measures
- 2.4.4. Meta-analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Search strategy and study selection
- 3.2. Quality of the included studies
- 3.2.1. Confounding
- 3.2.2. Selection of participants
- 3.2.3. Classification of interventions
- 3.2.4. Deviation from intended intervention
- 3.2.5. Missing data
- 3.2.6. Measurement of outcomes
- 3.2.7. Selection of reported result
- 3.3. Data extraction and study characteristics
- 3.3.1. Trial design and study sample
- 3.3.2. Intervention
- 3.3.3. Outcomes measures
- 3.4. Effect of interventions
- 3.4.1. Multi-item tinnitus questionnaire scores
- 3.4.2. Single-item tinnitus questionnaire scores
- 3.4.3. CI On vs CI Off
- 3.4.4. Total suppression
- 3.4.5. Adverse effects
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Funding sources
- References
- Chapter 3: Subjective hearing ability, physical and mental comorbidities in individuals with bothersome tinnitus in a Swe ...
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Method
- 2.1. Study design and sample
- 2.2. Variables
- 2.2.1. Outcome variable
- 2.2.2. Predictors
- 2.3. Statistical analysis
- 2.3.1. Descriptive analyses
- 2.3.2. Logistic regression models
- 2.3.3. Logistic mediation models
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Descriptive analyses
- 3.2. Logistic regression models
- 3.2.1. Subjective hearing
- 3.2.2. Physical comorbidities
- 3.2.3. Mental comorbidities
- 3.3. Logistic mediation models
- 3.3.1. X: Mental comorbidities, M: Subjective hearing, Y: Bothersome tinnitus (vs. non-bothersome tinnitus)
- 3.3.2. X: Physical comorbidities, M: Mental comorbidities, Y: Bothersome tinnitus (vs. non-bothersome tinnitus)
- 3.3.3. X: Subjective hearing, M: Mental comorbidities, Y: Bothersome tinnitus (vs. non-bothersome tinnitus)
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Prevalence
- 4.2. Age and gender
- 4.3. Subjective hearing
- 4.4. Physical comorbidities
- 4.5. Mental comorbidities
- 4.6. Clinical implications
- 4.7. Limitations
- 4.8. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Conflict of interest
- Data availability statement
- References
- Chapter 4: Exploring tinnitus heterogeneity
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Study design
- 2.2. Data collection
- 2.2.1. Demographical factors
- 2.2.2. Assessing tinnitus severity
- 2.2.3. Assessing tinnitus-related comorbidities
- 2.3. Data analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Participants
- 3.2. Tinnitus subgroups
- 3.2.1. Tinnitus subgroups based on tinnitus severity
- 3.2.2. Tinnitus subgroups based on demographical variables
- 3.2.3. Tinnitus subgroups based on tinnitus-related comorbidities
- 3.3. Factors underlying tinnitus severity
- 3.3.1. Predicting tinnitus severity from demographical variables
- 3.3.2. Predicting tinnitus severity from tinnitus-related comorbidities
- 3.3.3. Predicting tinnitus severity from demographic and tinnitus-related comorbidities
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Study implications
- 4.2. Study limitations and future directions
- References
- Chapter 5: Separate auditory pathways for the induction and maintenance of tinnitus and hyperacusis?
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Tinnitus and hyperacusis
- 1.2. Etiologies suggested by animal studies
- 2. Where do the three SFR groups of ANFs project?
- 2.1. Cell types in the cochlear nucleus
- 2.2. Pathways to the cortex and back
- 3. Is there a role for the brainstem reticular formation?
- 3.1. The reticular formation and the auditory system
- 3.2. Role of the RF in hyperacusis
- 4. A detour through the cerebellum
- 5. Involvement of non-auditory cortical areas in animal models of tinnitus and hyperacusis
- 6. Effects of noise exposure in lemniscal and extra-lemniscal pathways
- 6.1. Permanent threshold shifts
- 6.1.1. Behavioral signs of hyperacusis and tinnitus
- 6.2. Temporary threshold shifts
- 6.2.1. Behavioral signs of tinnitus after TTS
- 6.2.2. Behavioral signs of hyperacusis after TTS
- 6.2.3. Questioning the role of central gain in tinnitus and hyperacusis
- 6.3. Burst firing as a sign of tinnitus?
- 7. Potential different pathways for igniting hyperacusis and tinnitus suggested by animal studies
- 8. Human data
- 8.1. Auditory pathways
- 8.2. Non-auditory pathways and structures
- 8.3. Structural brain changes related to tinnitus or hearing loss?
- 8.4. Network connectivity changes
- 8.4.1. MRI based
- 8.4.2. EEG/MEG based
- 9. Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Prediction of tinnitus masking benefit within a case series using a spiking neural network model
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Participant characteristics
- 2.1.1. Hearing assessment
- 2.1.2. Tinnitus assessment
- 2.2. EEG
- 2.3. Masking sounds
- 2.4. Allocation
- 2.5. Sound player and instructions
- 2.6. Intermediate evaluations
- 2.7. Follow-up appointment (3 months after the fitting appointment)
- 2.8. Fitting appointment and follow-up appointments: Second and third treatment sound
- 2.9. Analysis
- 2.9.1. Behavioral data
- 2.9.2. EEG
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Behavioral outcomes
- 3.2. Prediction of outcomes using behavioural data
- 3.3. Computational modeling of EEG data using brain-inspired SNN architecture
- 3.3.1. Experiment 1. SNN connectivity
- 3.3.2. Experiment 2. Pattern classification
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments of participating authors' contributions
- Conflicts of interest and source of funding
- References
- Chapter 7: A portable neurofeedback device for treating chronic subjective tinnitus: Feasibility and results of a pilot study
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Material and methods
- 2.1. Trial design
- 2.2. EEG recording
- 2.3. Neurofeedback training and EEG online processing
- 2.4. Subject guidance
- 2.5. Off-line EEG data processing and analyses
- 2.6. Statistics
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Clinical outcome
- 3.2. Neurofeedback learning evaluation
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Merits
- 4.2. Limits
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 8: Impact of personality on acoustic tinnitus suppression and emotional reaction to stimuli sounds
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Participants
- 2.2. Psychometry
- 2.3. Audiometry and tinnitus matching
- 2.4. Acoustic stimulation
- 2.5. Statistical analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Descriptive data
- 3.2. Personality and emotional reaction to sounds
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Limitations
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 9: Web-based discussion forums reveal the person-centered relevance and importance of tinnitus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Method
- 2.1. Study overview
- 2.2. Participants
- 2.3. Design of the web discussion forum
- 2.4. Moderation style
- 2.5. Qualitative analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Participants
- 3.2. The lived experience of tinnitus
- 3.2.1. Diversity of tinnitus experiences
- 3.2.2. Severity of tinnitus complaints
- 3.2.3. Short-term fluctuations
- 3.2.4. Life's journey
- 3.2.5. Feeling misunderstood
- 3.3. Perspectives on interventions for tinnitus
- 3.3.1. Impact of tinnitus depends on the context and the task
- 3.3.2. Aspirations for treatment success
- 3.3.3. Issues relating to sound devices for managing symptoms
- 3.3.4. Issues relating to psychological approaches for managing symptoms
- 3.4. Experience of participating in a web discussion forum
- 3.4.1. Cross-cultural equivalence of terms written in English
- 3.4.2. Benefits of participation
- 3.4.3. Emotions running high
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Frustrations in living with tinnitus and suffering
- 4.2. Parallels in ``living well with hearing loss´´
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 10: Auditory experience, for a certain duration, is a prerequisite for tinnitus: lessons from subjects with unila ...
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 2.1. Participants
- 2.2. Audiological and psychoacoustic evaluations
- 2.3. Statistical analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Participants' characteristics
- 3.2. Psychoacoustic characteristics of tinnitus
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Limitations and future perspectives
- 5. Conclusions
- Funding
- Conflict of interest
- References
- Chapter 11: Conventional versus notch filter amplification for the treatment of tinnitus in adults with mild-to-moderate
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Participants
- 2.2. Tinnitus assessment
- 2.2.1. Questionnaires
- 2.2.2. Pitch matching
- 2.3. Hearing aid fitting
- 2.4. Procedures
- 2.5. Data analysis
- 3. Results
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Conflicts of interest and source of funding
- References
- Chapter 12: Total remission or persistence of tinnitus and decreased sound level tolerance in adolescents with normal aud ...
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Design and setting
- 2.2. Sample selection
- 2.3. Procedures
- 2.4. Statistical analyses
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Tinnitus persistence and remission in the sound chamber were observed one-year later
- 3.2. Confirmed tinnitus was accompanied by reduced sound level tolerance
- 3.3. Confirmed tinnitus was accompanied by high frequency threshold shift
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Prevalence of tinnitus in adolescents
- 4.2. Confirmed tinnitus was associated with reduced sound level tolerance
- 4.3. Noise exposure or intrinsic vulnerability
- 4.4. Episodic tinnitus versus tinnitus remission
- 4.5. Putative sources and mechanisms
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 13: Long-lasting total remission of tinnitus: A systematic collection of cases
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Participants
- 2.2. Data collection
- 2.3. Statistical methods
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Sample description
- 3.2. Total remission of tinnitus
- 3.3. Self-reported comorbidities and etiology of tinnitus
- 3.4. Long-lasting total remission of tinnitus
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 14: An exploration of psychological symptom-based phenotyping of adult cochlear implant users with and without ti ...
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 2.1. Patient sample
- 2.2. Psychological measures of anxiety, depression and insomnia
- 2.3. Self-report measures of tinnitus
- 2.4. Mixture model analysis
- 2.5. Statistical analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Patient characteristics
- 3.2. Psychological phenotypes
- 3.3. Association of phenotypes with tinnitus
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Psychological phenotypes and tinnitus in CI users
- 4.2. Implications for clinical management
- 4.3. Implications for future phenotyping studies
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- References
- Chapter 15: The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism regulates vulnerability to chronic stress and phantom perception
- 1. Significance statement
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Methods
- 3.1. Participants
- 3.2. Genotyping
- 3.3. EEG data collection
- 3.4. Source localization
- 3.5. Statistical analyses on the whole brain
- 3.6. Region of interest analysis
- 3.7. Lagged phase coherence
- 3.8. Statistical analyses for the lagged phase coherence
- 3.9. Granger causality
- 4. Results
- 4.1. Genetic characteristics
- 4.2. Behavioral results
- 5. Behavioral
- 5.1. Whole brain analysis
- 5.2. Functional connectivity: Lagged phase coherence
- 5.3. Effective connectivity: Granger causality
- 6. Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 16: Audiological findings in professionals exposed to music and their relation with tinnitus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Results
- 2.1. General characteristics
- 2.2. Comparison between groups with and without tinnitus (G0 vs. Gt)
- 2.3. Comparison between Gt (tinnitus) vs. G0 (no tinnitus) in participants with normal PTA (GnPTA_0 vs. GnPTA_t)
- 3. Discussion
- 3.1. Tinnitus prevalence in musicians
- 3.2. Tinnitus in musicians
- 3.3. Audiological tests and tinnitus in musicians
- 3.4. Strengths: Limitations
- 3.5. Experimental procedure
- 3.6. Exclusion criteria
- 3.7. Procedure
- 3.8. Statistical analysis
- Funding
- References
- Chapter 17: Lidocaine injections to the otic ganglion for the treatment of tinnitus-A pilot study
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Ganglion oticum and trigeminal structures
- 1.2. Effects of lidocaine on tinnitus
- 2. Materials and methods
- 2.1. Patients
- 2.2. Injections
- 2.3. Tinnitus assessment
- 2.4. Data handling
- 3. Results
- 4. Discussion
- References
- Chapter 18: Paradoxical relationship between distress and functional network topology in phantom sound perception
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 2.1. Study participants
- 2.2. Audiological and behavioral assessments
- 2.3. Magnetic resonance imaging
- 2.3.1. Acquisition
- 2.3.2. Preprocessing
- 2.4. Wavelet transformation and construction of frequency-specific connectivity matrix
- 2.5. Construction of real and random networks
- 2.6. Proportional thresholding of real networks
- 2.7. Network measures
- 2.7.1. Global efficiency
- 2.7.2. Characteristic path length
- 2.7.3. Clustering coefficient
- 2.7.4. Small-worldness
- 2.7.5. Edge-betweenness centrality of rich-club and feeder edges
- 2.7.6. Network resilience against rich-club and feeder connections
- 2.8. Statistical analysis
- 2.9. Path analysis
- 2.10. Comparison of models
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Behavioral factors
- 3.2. Distress severity and network measures
- 3.3. Distress severity and edge-betweenness centrality of selected edges
- 3.4. Distress severity and network resilience against removing selected edges
- 3.5. Network efficiency and centrality of selected edges
- 3.6. Network efficiency and resilience against removing selected edges
- 3.7. Path analysis on relationship between distress and network measures
- 4. Discussion
- 4.1. Distress-efficiency and its relation to functional integration and segregation
- 4.2. Distress-efficiency and its relation to centrality and resilience of rich-club and feeder nodes
- 4.3. Predictive Relationship between Tinnitus Distress and Network Efficiency
- 4.4. Effects of the tinnitus stressor on brain networks
- 4.5. Future Directions
- 5. Conclusion
- Ethical statement
- Disclosure
- Author contributions
- Data accessibility statement
- References
- Chapter 19: Phonetic perception but not perception of speaker gender is impaired in chronic tinnitus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Participants
- 2.2. Stimuli
- 2.3. Procedures
- 2.4. Perceptual tasks
- 2.5. Data analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Sample characteristics
- 3.2. Experiment 1
- 3.3. Experiment 2
- 3.4. Additional analyses
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 20: Efficacy and safety of single- and repeated-selurampanel dosing for 2 weeks in patients with chronic su
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Study design
- 2.2. Patients
- 2.3. Study endpoints
- 2.4. Safety assessments
- 2.5. Statistical analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Patient characteristics
- 3.2. Primary efficacy results
- 3.2.1. TBF-12
- 3.2.2. VAS
- 3.3. Supportive analysis
- 3.3.1. TBF-12
- 3.3.2. VAS
- 3.4. Tinnitus loudness and annoyance by VAS after single and multiple doses
- 3.5. Safety results
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Conflict of interest
- Funding
- References
- Chapter 21: Towards a unification of treatments and interventions for tinnitus patients: The EU research and innovation a ...
- 1. Background
- 2. Toward a personalized treatment approach
- 3. UNITI management and project details
- 4. Concept and methodology
- 5. Randomized clinical trial (RCT)
- 6. Genetic and biomarker analysis
- 7. Decision support system
- 8. Financial estimation analysis
- Acknowledgments
- References
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