Translation, Cultural Adaptation and Validation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Tinnitus Functional Index Questionnaire.

 Tinnitus affects a large portion of the world's population. There are several questionnaires being used for the evaluation of the severity of tinnitus and its impact in quality of life; however, they do not measure treatment-related changes. So, a new self-reported questionnaire was developed, the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI), which has been translated into several languages.

Hearing aid effectiveness on patients with chronic tinnitus and associated hearing loss.

Objective: Our study aimed to measure the effectiveness of using HA in reducing the disturbance caused by tinnitus.

Methods: Study was designed as a within-subjects clinical trial. Nineteen patients with chronic tinnitus and untreated sensorineural hearing loss were under counseling, HA fitting and 6 months follow-up.

Evaluating the efficacy of hearing aids for tinnitus therapy - A Positron emission tomography study.

Brain imaging studies have revealed neural changes in chronic tinnitus patients that are not restricted to auditory brain areas; rather, the engagement of limbic system structures, attention and memory networks are has been noted. Hearing aids (HA) provide compensation for comorbid hearing loss and may decrease tinnitus-related perception and annoyance. Using resting state positron emission tomography our goal was to analyze metabolic and functional brain changes after six months of effective HA use by patients with chronic tinnitus and associated sensorineural hearing loss.

Effect of Fractal Tones on the Improvement of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory Functional Scores among Chronic Tinnitus Patients: An Open-label Pilot Study.

 Music-based sound therapies become recently a trend in the treatment of tinnitus. Few publications have studied the therapeutic use of fractal tones to treat chronic tinnitus.  The aim of this study was to determine the benefits of using fractal tones as a unique sound therapy for chronic tinnitus sufferers.

Tinnitus Neural Mechanisms and Structural Changes in the Brain: The Contribution of Neuroimaging Research.

Introduction Tinnitus is an abnormal perception of sound in the absence of an external stimulus. Chronic tinnitus usually has a high impact in many aspects of patients' lives, such as emotional stress, sleep disturbance, concentration difficulties, and so on. These strong reactions are usually attributed to central nervous system involvement.

Anatomy and physiology of the external ear: implications for hearing aid fitting in infants.

Background: This study describes the anatomic, physiologic and acoustic characteristics of the external ear in infants.

Aim: To verify the implications of these differences in the selection of the physical and electroacoustic characteristics of the hearing aid for this age group.

Method: The resonance of the external ear was measured in 32 infants with ages varying from 0 to 18 months.