Heidelberg Neuro-Music Therapy Enhances Task-Negative Activity in Tinnitus Patients.

ABSTRACT: Background: Suffering from tinnitus causes mental distress in most patients. Recent findings point toward a diminished activity of the brain's default-mode network (DMN) in subjects with mental disorders including depression or anxiety and also recently in subjects with tinnitus-related distress. We recently developed a therapeutic intervention, namely the Heidelberg Neuro-Music Therapy (HNMT), which shows an effective reduction of tinnitus-related distress following a 1-week short-term treatment. This approach offers the possibility to evaluate the neural changes associated with the improvements in tinnitus distress. We previously reported gray matter (GM) reorganization in DMN regions and in primary auditory areas following HNMT in cases of recent-onset tinnitus. Here we evaluate

SUBMITTER: Krick CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5500649 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature