Sound therapies are a common component of treatments for tinnitus and hyperacusis. The
original idea was to partially or completely mask tinnitus with broadband noise delivered by …

Stochastic resonance (SR) has been proposed to play a major role in auditory perception,
and to maintain optimal information transmission from the cochlea to the auditory system. By …

Tinnitus is a sound heard by 15% of the general population in the absence of any external
sound. Because external sounds can sometimes mask tinnitus, tinnitus is assumed to affect …

Auditory de-afferentation, a permanent reduction in the number of inner-hair-cells and
auditory-nerve synapses due to cochlear damage or synaptopathy, can reliably be …

The exact neurophysiological basis of chronic tinnitus, which affects 10-15% of the
population, remains unknown and is controversial at many levels. It is an open question …

The healthy auditory system enables communication in challenging situations with high
levels of background noise. Yet, despite normal sensitivity to pure tones, many listeners …

For successful future therapeutic strategies for tinnitus and hyperacusis, a subcategorization
of both conditions on the basis of differentiated neural correlates would be of invaluable …

Noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy (CS) is defined as a permanent loss of synapses in
the auditory nerve pathway following noise exposure. Several studies using auditory …

The acoustic middle-ear-muscle reflex (MEMR) has been suggested as a sensitive non-
invasive measure of cochlear synaptopathy, the loss of synapses between inner hair cells …

We hypothesize that the decreased cognitive decline is a direct consequence of an
improved speech perception and less cognitive deprivation due to the stochastic resonance …