The effect of noninvasive brain stimulation on neural connectivity in Tinnitus: A randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives/hypothesis

To explore neural connectivity changes associated with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the temporoparietal junction for patients with bothersome tinnitus.

Study design

Randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial.

Methods

Thirty patients with subjective, nonpulsatile tinnitus for 6 months duration or longer and a score of 36 or greater on the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory completed the study. Participants were randomized to receive either sham or active treatment with rTMS to the temporoparietal junction for either 2 or 4 weeks of therapy. Participants underwent resting state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging before therapy and immediately following treatment. Functional connectivity changes between ac

SUBMITTER: Roland LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4814353 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature