Publications by authors named "Tony Kay"
An economic evaluation of the healthcare cost of tinnitus management in the UK.
BMC Health Serv Res
August 2017
Background: There is no standard treatment pathway for tinnitus patients in the UK. Possible therapies include education and reassurance, cognitive behavioural therapies, modified tinnitus retraining therapy (education and sound enrichment), or amplification of external sound using hearing aids. However, the effectiveness of most therapies is somewhat controversial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to compare performance measures acquired by two different Wingate Anaerobic Test systems; Cranlea and Monark. Twenty participants undertook 58 Wingate tests against a 4% body mass resistive load on a cycle ergometer adapted for arm cranking. Corrected peak power output (PP; W) was recorded using 1 rev min(-1), 0.
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- Tinnitus is a strange condition where people hear sounds without any external noise, and this study seeks to understand how it relates to brain structure changes due to stress and negative emotions.
- Using advanced imaging techniques, researchers compared brain scans of 14 tinnitus sufferers with 14 people who don’t have it, focusing on alterations in grey and white matter.
- The findings showed that those with tinnitus exhibited significant reductions in brain thickness in areas crucial for emotion and sound processing, indicating potential neural changes linked to the condition.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the brain circuitry involved in the processing of both positive and negative emotions in normal healthy subjects.
Method: we have recruited 15 healthy volunteers (9 males and 6 females, age range 30-60). In this block-design fMRI study, we compared the blood oxygen level dependant (BOLD) signal change as response to pleasant and unpleasant IAPS pictures, each compared to a neutral condition.