The prevalence of hearing problems in the Western world has, due to aging of the
population, doubled over the past 30 years. Thereby, noise-induced hearing loss is an …

Subjective tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of external or bodily-generated
sounds. Chronic tinnitus is a highly prevalent condition affecting over 70 million people in …

Human brain imaging has revealed that acute pain results from activation of a network of
brain regions, including the somatosensory, insular, prefrontal, and cingulate cortices. In …

Key points Medial geniculate body (MGB) single units recorded from sound‐exposed
animals with behavioural evidence of tinnitus exhibits enhanced spontaneous firing and …

Hearing loss leads to a host of cellular and synaptic changes in auditory brain areas that are
thought to give rise to auditory perception deficits such as temporal processing impairments …

Tinnitus is a phantom sound percept that is strongly associated with peripheral hearing loss.
However, only a fraction of hearing-impaired subjects develops tinnitus. This may be based …

A curative therapy for tinnitus currently does not exist. One may actually exist but cannot
currently be causally linked to tinnitus due to the lack of consistency of concepts about the …

Tinnitus is a percept of sound that is not related to an acoustic source outside the body. For
many forms of tinnitus, mechanisms in the central nervous system are believed to play a role …

Tinnitus and hyperacusis are common and potentially serious hearing disorders associated
with noise-, age-or drug-induced hearing loss. Accumulating evidence suggests that tinnitus …

Tinnitus is highly complex, diverse, and difficult to treat, in part due to the fact that the
underlying causes and mechanisms remain elusive. Tinnitus is generated within the …