Susceptibility to Residual Inhibition Is Associated With Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Chronicity

Hu, S.; Anschütz, L.; Hall, D. A.; Caversaccio, M.; Wimmer, W. (2021). Susceptibility to Residual Inhibition Is Associated With Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Chronicity. Trends in hearing, 25, p. 2331216520986303. Sage 10.1177/2331216520986303

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Residual inhibition, that is, the temporary suppression of tinnitus loudness after acoustic stimulation, is a frequently observed phenomenon that may have prognostic value for clinical applications. However, it is unclear in which subjects residual inhibition is more likely and how stable the effect of inhibition is over multiple repetitions. The primary aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of hearing loss and tinnitus chronicity on residual inhibition susceptibility. The secondary aim was to investigate the short-term repeatability of residual inhibition. Residual inhibition was assessed in 74 tinnitus subjects with 60-second narrow-band noise stimuli in 10 consecutive trials. The subjects were assigned to groups according to their depth of suppression (substantial residual inhibition vs. comparator group). In addition, a categorization in normal hearing and hearing loss groups, related to the degree of hearing loss at the frequency corresponding to the tinnitus pitch, was made. Logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with susceptibility to residual inhibition. Repeatability of residual inhibition was assessed using mixed-effects ordinal regression including poststimulus time and repetitions as factors. Tinnitus chronicity was not associated with residual inhibition for subjects with hearing loss, while a statistically significant negative association between tinnitus chronicity and residual inhibition susceptibility was observed in normal hearing subjects (odds ratio: 0.63; p = .0076). Moreover, repeated states of suppression can be stably induced, reinforcing the use of residual inhibition for within-subject comparison studies.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders (ENT)
10 Strategic Research Centers > ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research > ARTORG Center - Hearing Research Laboratory

Graduate School:

Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB)

UniBE Contributor:

Hu, Suyi, Anschütz, Lukas Peter, Caversaccio, Marco, Wimmer, Wilhelm

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2331-2165

Publisher:

Sage

Language:

English

Submitter:

Wilhelm Wimmer

Date Deposited:

20 Apr 2021 10:45

Last Modified:

05 Apr 2023 12:05

Publisher DOI:

10.1177/2331216520986303

PubMed ID:

33663298

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.152962

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152962

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