Animal studies demonstrate that noise exposure can permanently damage the synapses
between inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers, even when outer hair cells are intact and …

Tinnitus is the conscious perception of a sound without a corresponding external acoustic
stimulus, usually described as a phantom perception. One of the major challenges for …

Tinnitus, reduced sound-level tolerance, and difficulties hearing in noisy environments are
the most common complaints associated with sensorineural hearing loss in adult …

Subjective tinnitus is the conscious perception of sound in the absence of any acoustic
source. The literature suggests various tinnitus mechanisms, most of which invoke changes …

In rodents, exposure to high-level noise can destroy synapses between inner hair cells and
auditory nerve fibers, without causing hair cell loss or permanent threshold elevation. Such …

In animals, noise exposures that produce robust temporary threshold shifts (TTS) can
produce immediate damage to afferent synapses and long-term degeneration of low …

Chronic tinnitus is a prevalent hearing disorder, and yet no successful treatments or
objective diagnostic tests are currently available. The aim of this study was to investigate the …

Tinnitus is the chronic perception of a phantom sound with different levels of related distress.
Past research has elucidated interactions of tinnitus distress with audiological, affective and …

BACKGROUND The heterogeneity of tinnitus is thought to underlie the lack of objective
diagnostic measures. METHODS Longitudinal data from 20,349 participants of the Swedish …

The auditory brainstem response (ABR) in tinnitus subjects has been extensively
investigated over the last decade with the hopes of finding possible abnormalities related to …