Functional Brain Changes During Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Associated With Tinnitus Severity.

ABSTRACT: Mindfulness-based therapies have been introduced as a treatment option to reduce the psychological severity of tinnitus, a currently incurable chronic condition. This pilot study of twelve subjects with chronic tinnitus investigates the relationship between measures of both task-based and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and measures of tinnitus severity, assessed with the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI). MRI was measured at three time points: before, after, and at follow-up of an 8-week long mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention. During the task-based fMRI with affective sounds, no significant changes were observed between sessions, nor was the activation to emotionally salient compared to neutral stimuli significantly predictive of TFI. Significant re

SUBMITTER: Zimmerman B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667657 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature