Schlee, Winfried and Herrmann, Jochen and Pryss, Rüdiger and Reichert, Manfred and Langguth, Berthold (2014) How dynamic is the continuous tinnitus percept? In: 11th International Tinnitus Seminar, 21-24 May, Berlin.
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Abstract
Objective: Subjective tinnitus is defined as an auditory perception in the absence of any physically identifiable source for it. About 5-10% of the population report a continuous perception of the tinnitus sound – but how continuous is this perception? Is the tinnitus constantly “on”, or are there also periods were the tinnitus is perceived less? Indeed, more than 60% of the chronic tinnitus subjects report a variability of the tinnitus perception between days. The heterogeneity of this variability is currently largely unexplored. Results: Chronic tinnitus is usually associated with a decrease of the alpha frequency oscillatory power in temporal areas. Here we show, that also the moment-to-moment variability of the alpha activity is largely reduced in chronic tinnitus. Most importantly, it can be shown that this neuronal variability is associated with the tinnitus duration. Subjects with a longer history of tinnitus show less alpha variability in auditory regions. Preliminary data on the variability of the tinnitus perception will be presented.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Subjects: | DBIS Research > Publications |
Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science > Institute of Databases and Informations Systems > DBIS Research and Teaching > DBIS Research > Publications |
Depositing User: | Ruediger Pryss |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2014 17:10 |
Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2016 06:55 |
URI: | http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/1052 |