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2015 ; 5
(ä): 10802
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Multisensory attention training for treatment of tinnitus
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Spiegel DP
; Linford T
; Thompson B
; Petoe MA
; Kobayashi K
; Stinear CM
; Searchfield GD
Sci Rep
2015[May]; 5
(ä): 10802
PMID26020589
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Tinnitus is the conscious perception of sound with no physical sound source. Some
models of tinnitus pathophysiology suggest that networks associated with
attention, memory, distress and multisensory experience are involved in tinnitus
perception. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether a multisensory
attention training paradigm which used audio, visual, and somatosensory
stimulation would reduce tinnitus. Eighteen participants with predominantly
unilateral chronic tinnitus were randomized between two groups receiving 20 daily
sessions of either integration (attempting to reduce salience to tinnitus by
binding with multisensory stimuli) or attention diversion (multisensory stimuli
opposite side to tinnitus) training. The training resulted in small but
statistically significant reductions in Tinnitus Functional Index and Tinnitus
Severity Numeric Scale scores and improved attentional abilities. No
statistically significant improvements in tinnitus were found between the
training groups. This study demonstrated that a short period of multisensory
attention training reduced unilateral tinnitus, but directing attention toward or
away from the tinnitus side did not differentiate this effect.