Neurofeedback for Tinnitus Treatment - Review and Current Concepts.

ABSTRACT: An effective treatment to completely alleviate chronic tinnitus symptoms has not yet been discovered. However, recent developments suggest that neurofeedback (NFB), a method already popular in the treatment of other psychological and neurological disorders, may provide a suitable alternative. NFB is a non-invasive method generally based on electrophysiological recordings and visualizing of certain aspects of brain activity as positive or negative feedback that enables patients to voluntarily control their brain activity and thus triggers them to unlearn typical neural activity patterns related to tinnitus. The purpose of this review is to summarize and discuss previous findings of neurofeedback treatment studies in the field of chronic tinnitus. In doing so, also an overview about the unde

SUBMITTER: Guntensperger D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5717031 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature