CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Laryngorhinootologie 2023; 102(S 01): S59-S66
DOI: 10.1055/a-1959-3021
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Tinnitus and Multimodal Cortical Interaction

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Christian Dobel
1   Klinik und Poliklinik für HNO-Heilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Jena
,
Markus Junghöfer
2   Institut für Biomagnetismus und Biosignalanalyse, Universität Münster, Münster
,
Birgit Mazurek
3   Tinnituszentrum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin
,
Evangelos Paraskevopoulos
4   Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, CY, Nicosia, Cyprus
,
Joachim Groß
2   Institut für Biomagnetismus und Biosignalanalyse, Universität Münster, Münster
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Abstract

The term of subjective tinnitus is used to describe a perceived noise without an external sound source. Therefore, it seems to be obvious that tinnitus can be understood as purely auditory, sensory problem. From a clinical point of view, however, this is a very inadequate description, as there are significant comorbidities associated with chronic tinnitus. Neurophysiological investigations with different imaging techniques give a very similar picture, because not only the auditory system is affected in chronic tinnitus patients, but also a widely ramified subcortical and cortical network. In addition to auditory processing systems, networks consisting of frontal and parietal regions are particularly disturbed. For this reason, some authors conceptualize tinnitus as a network disorder rather than a disorder of a circumscribed system. These findings and this concept suggest that tinnitus must be diagnosed and treated in a multidisciplinary and multimodal manner.



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Article published online:
02 May 2023

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