Maladaptive plasticity in tinnitus—triggers, mechanisms and treatment

SE Shore, LE Roberts, B Langguth - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2016 - nature.com
Tinnitus is a phantom auditory sensation that reduces quality of life for millions of people
worldwide, and for which there is no medical cure. Most cases of tinnitus are associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of noise-induced tinnitus: insights from cellular studies

SE Shore, C Wu - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Tinnitus, sound perception in the absence of physical stimuli, occurs in 15% of the
population and is the top-reported disability for soldiers after combat. Noise overexposure is …

Auditory-somatosensory bimodal stimulation desynchronizes brain circuitry to reduce tinnitus in guinea pigs and humans

KL Marks, DT Martel, C Wu, GJ Basura… - Science Translational …, 2018 - science.org
The dorsal cochlear nucleus is the first site of multisensory convergence in mammalian
auditory pathways. Principal output neurons, the fusiform cells, integrate auditory nerve …

Reversing synchronized brain circuits using targeted auditory-somatosensory stimulation to treat phantom percepts: a randomized clinical trial

GR Jones, DT Martel, TL Riffle, J Errickson… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Animal models have shown altered dorsal cochlear nucleus circuitry in animals
that develop tinnitus; however, precise treatment using bisensory (auditory and …

Glutamatergic projections to the cochlear nucleus are redistributed in tinnitus

AN Heeringa, C Wu, C Chung, M West, D Martel… - Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Tinnitus alters auditory–somatosensory plasticity in the cochlear nucleus (CN).
Correspondingly, bimodal auditory–somatosensory stimulation treatment attenuates tinnitus …

[HTML][HTML] The pathological mechanisms and treatments of tinnitus

S Saeed, QU Khan - Discoveries, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tinnitus is defined as the ringing, hissing, clicking or roaring sounds an individual
consciously perceives in the absence of an external auditory stimulus. Currently, the …

Hebbian spike-timing dependent plasticity at the cerebellar input stage

M Sgritta, F Locatelli, T Soda, F Prestori… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) is a form of long-term synaptic plasticity exploiting
the time relationship between postsynaptic action potentials (APs) and EPSPs. Surprisingly …

An update: emerging drugs for tinnitus

CR Cederroth, J Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen… - Expert opinion on …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: During the last decade, a number of candidate drugs for the treatment of
tinnitus have emerged with the hope of alleviating the burden of millions of sufferers with a …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative treatment for tinnitus combining repeated facial and auriculotemporal nerve blocks with stimulation of auditory and non-auditory nerves

SJ Sirh, SW Sirh, HY Mun, HM Sirh - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Tinnitus is a prevalent condition (> 10% of the population) affecting the quality
of life of 0.5–3% of the population. Although several treatments have been proposed, most of …

[HTML][HTML] An investigation of feasibility and safety of bi-modal stimulation for the treatment of tinnitus: an open-label pilot study

C Hamilton, S D'Arcy, BA Pearlmutter… - … : Technology at the …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of an external auditory
stimulus. It is widely believed that tinnitus, in patients with associated hearing loss, is a …