tinnitus therapies
tinnitus therapies relates to brain function and cognitive performance. Peak Brain Institute explores how QEEG brain mapping and neurofeedback training connect to tinnitus therapies through evidence-based approaches. Explore our 2 research papers covering this topic.
Research Papers
Neurofeedback by neural correlates of auditory selective attention as possible application for tinnitus therapies
More and more people are suffering from tinnitus. There are many treatments for tinnitus that have been claimed based on different causes. Unfortunately, until now none of the existing treatments has been found to be effective in general. Here, we would like to suggest a treatment to tinnitus based on neurofeedback using neural correlates of auditory selective evoked potentials (ASEPs). We have shown that the wavelet phase synchronization of auditory late responses (ALR) single sweeps allows for a direct online monitoring of phase locked auditory attention. The results show that after a simple training, subjects learned to control their attention to the auditory modality. To improve the ability in the attention control system is an objective of many tinnitus treatments, so that the perception of the patients towards the tinnitus noise can be reduced to a minimum. It is concluded that our proposed neurofeedback system by wavelet phase synchronization measure might be used in a clinical treatment of tinnitus patients and it is possible to extent to other therapeutic based control systems.
View Full Paper →Neurofeedback training as a therapy for tinnitus/ Neurofeedback in der Therapie des Tinnitus
Background and objective: Biofeedback is known as a possibility to control physiologic processes like body temperature or heart frequency. Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback linked to aspects of the electrical activity of the brain such as frequency, location or amplitude of specific EEG activity. It has been successfully used in patients with closed head injury, hyperactivity disorder or epilepsy. Patients/methods: In this study 40 patients with tinnitus were treated with neurofeedback. They trained to upregulate the amplitude of their α-activity and downregulate the amplitude of β-activity during muscle relaxation and acoustic orientation on sounds or music in order to suppress their tinnitus. Results: After 15 sessions of training 24 patients with a duration of their tinnitus for an average of 1 year showed significant increase of α-amplitudes while 16 patients with duration of their tinnitus on an average of 7 years showed a decrease of β-amplitudes without any change in α-activity. After the training all patients had a significant reduction of the score in the tinnitusquestionaire of Göbel and Hiller. In a control-group of 15 persons without tinnitus we didn't see any changes of α- or β-amplitudes during the same training. Conclusions: In conclusion neurofeedback is a new therapy for patients with tinnitus. Patients get the possibility of selfcontrol and therefore of influence on their disease.
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