Using Auditory Steady State Responses to Outline the Functional Connectivity in the Tinnitus Brain

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 3; no. 11; p. e3720
• Main Authors: Schlee, Winfried, Weisz, Nathan, Bertrand, Olivier, Hartmann, Thomas, Elbert, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 13.11.2008; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation - methods; Adult; Auditory Pathways - physiopathology; Auditory Perception; Auditory system; Brain; Brain Mapping; Brain research; Central nervous system; Cerebral Cortex - physiopathology; Cingulum; Cognition & reasoning; Consciousness; Correlation analysis; Cortex; Couplings; Decision making; Female; Frontal lobe; Hearing Loss; Humans; Magnetoencephalography; Male; Middle Aged; Nerve Net - physiopathology; Nervous system; Neural networks; Neurophysiology; Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Neurobiology of Disease and Regeneration; Neuroscience/Psychology; Neurosciences; Pain; Parietal lobe; Perception; Psychology; Ratings; Sound; Steady state; Studies; Synchronism; Synchronization; Taxonomy; Tinnitus; Tinnitus - diagnosis; Tinnitus - physiopathology; Trends; Young Adult; Germany

Tinnitus is an auditory phantom perception that is most likely generated in the central nervous system. Most of the tinnitus research has concentrated on the auditory system. However, it was suggested recently that also non-auditory structures are involved in a global network that encodes subjective...