Happy Hearing Podcast: Episode 18 - Talking Tinnitus and the Oto App with Dr. Edmund Farrar

PubMed·Clinical trial·Tinnitus·7d ago

Mobile Application as a Digital Therapeutic for Chronic Tinnitus: A Randomized Clinical Trial

If the app demonstrated significant efficacy, audiologists managing chronic tinnitus patients should consider whether a CBT-based digital therapeutic could complement or extend clinic-based tinnitus management — specific outcome data from the trial should be reviewed before...

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PubMed·Journal article·Tinnitus·7h ago

EEG Spectral Analysis of Tinnitus Sound Therapy: Meta-Analysis

This meta-analysis provides neurophysiological evidence supporting sound therapy's effect on brain activity in chronic tinnitus, but clinicians should interpret EEG outcomes cautiously as surrogate markers until they are linked to validated patient-reported symptom improvement.

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PubMed·Journal article·Tinnitus·7h ago

Analysis of Depression and Anxiety in Patients With Tinnitus: A Focus on Specific Age Groups and Sex-Related Differences

Audiologists should routinely screen working-age tinnitus patients for anxiety, depression, and insomnia, and interpret results with awareness that age and sex influence these comorbidities.

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PubMed·Journal article·Tinnitus·4d ago

A dilated mastoid emissary vein as a potential cause of pulsatile tinnitus

Clinicians evaluating idiopathic pulsatile tinnitus should consider dilated mastoid emissary vein as a vascular cause; imaging review specifically targeting this structure may improve diagnostic yield in otherwise unexplained cases.

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PubMed·Journal article·Tinnitus·8d ago

Tinnitus Trends in Young Adults: Prevalence and Duration from 2008 to 2023

Rising tinnitus prevalence and duration in young adults warrant earlier screening and counseling in clinical practice, particularly for patients with recreational noise exposure histories.

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PubMed·Journal article·Tinnitus·2d ago

Tinnitus compensation strategies based on the current neuroplasticity theories (systematic review)

Clinicians should be aware that neuroplasticity-based compensation strategies for tinnitus are being systematically reviewed, but widespread practice changes should await individual strategy-level evidence synthesis from the full paper.

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PubMed·Journal article·Tinnitus·2d ago

Validation of Russian version of Tinnitus Catastrophizing Scale

Clinicians working with Russian-speaking tinnitus patients now have a validated psychometric tool (Tinnitus Catastrophizing Scale) available, though adopting it requires access to the full validated instrument and norms.

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PubMed·Journal article·Tinnitus·3d ago

Exploration of sleep spindles from surgically induced unilaterally deaf adult humans with and without tinnitus

No immediate clinical practice change, but this study provides early neurophysiological evidence relevant to tinnitus mechanisms that researchers and specialist clinicians should monitor.