Effects of mindfulness based stress reduction therapy on subjective bother and neural connectivity in chronic tinnitus.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in patients with chronic bothersome tinnitus on the (1) severity of symptoms of tinnitus and (2) functional connectivity in neural attention networks.

Study Design: Open-label interventional pilot study.

Setting: Outpatient academic medical center.