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Advances in Tinnitus and Hearing Disorders

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 4553

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Alessandra Fioretti

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Tinnitus Center, European Hospital, 00149 Rome, Italy
Interests: tinnitus; hearing loss; hyperacusis; misophonia; clinical questionnaires; audiometry; benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; dizziness
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Dr. Aldo Messina

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Past Head of the Audiology Unit, Policlinico Universitario, Palermo, Italy
Interests: tinnitus; hearing loss; hyperacusis; misophonia; clinical questionnaires; audiometry; benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; dizziness
Dr. Francesco Ciodaro

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Division for Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Adult and Development Age Human Pathology “Gaetano Barresi”, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
Interests: ENT; vestibology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The diagnosis and therapy of tinnitus and hearing disorders such as hyperacusis and misophonia are complex because their underlying pathophysiological mechanisms are not well established. In the last decades, clinical and biochemical markers (including imaging techniques and genetics) as well as teleaudiology have emerged as promising tools for hearing disorders.

The current Special Issue of Brain Sciences aims to present the latest research on the clinical findings for adult and pediatric tinnitus and hearing disorders. Relevant cutting-edge research includes optical coherence tomography and teleaudiology.

Authors are invited to submit relevant original research and review papers.

Dr. Alessandra Fioretti
Guest Editor

Dr. Aldo Messina
Dr. Francesco Ciodaro
Guest Editor Assistants

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Keywords

  • tinnitus
  • teleaudiology
  • sudden sensorineural hearing loss
  • hyperacusis
  • biomarkers
  • neuroinflammation
  • autoimmune inner ear disease
  • optical coherence tomography
  • misophonia
  • neuroimaging

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Assessment of Executive Functions in Children with Sensorineural Hearing Loss and in Children with Specific Language Impairment: Preliminary Reports
by Maria Lauriello, Giulia Mazzotta, Antonella Mattei, Ilaria Mulieri, Alessandra Fioretti, Enzo Iacomino and Alberto Eibenstein
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(5), 491; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050491 - 13 May 2024
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Executive functions (EFs) are related abilities, associated with the frontal lobes functions, that allow individuals to modify behavioral patterns when they become unsatisfactory. The aim of this study was to assess EFs in children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and in children with [...] Read more.
Executive functions (EFs) are related abilities, associated with the frontal lobes functions, that allow individuals to modify behavioral patterns when they become unsatisfactory. The aim of this study was to assess EFs in children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and in children with “specific language impairment” (SLI), compared with a control group of children with normal development, to identify specific skill deficits. Three groups of preschool children aged between 2 and 6 years were assessed: 19 children with normal hearing, cognitive, and language development, 10 children with SNHL, and 20 children with SLI. The FE-PS 2-6 Battery was used for the assessment of preschool EFs, supplemented with the Modified Bell Test for the analysis of selective attention. Statistically significant differences were found between the two experimental groups and the control one, regarding the investigated skills. Children with SNHL showed a clear deficit in flexibility, whereas children with SLI had greater problems in self-regulation and management of waiting for gratification. Selective attention was found to be deficient in all three groups, with no statistically significant differences. This study shows that the skills investigated were found to be deficient in both SNHL and SLI patients. It is essential to start targeted exercises based on specific deficient skills as part of the rehabilitation program. It is of great importance to understand the consequences of EF deficit in preschool children to achieve an accurate diagnosis and carry out customized rehabilitation programs. Full article
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ChatGPT for Tinnitus Information and Support: Response Accuracy and Retest after Three and Six Months
by W. Wiktor Jedrzejczak, Piotr H. Skarzynski, Danuta Raj-Koziak, Milaine Dominici Sanfins, Stavros Hatzopoulos and Krzysztof Kochanek
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(5), 465; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050465 - 7 May 2024
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Testing of ChatGPT has recently been performed over a diverse range of topics. However, most of these assessments have been based on broad domains of knowledge. Here, we test ChatGPT’s knowledge of tinnitus, an important but specialized aspect of audiology and otolaryngology. Testing [...] Read more.
Testing of ChatGPT has recently been performed over a diverse range of topics. However, most of these assessments have been based on broad domains of knowledge. Here, we test ChatGPT’s knowledge of tinnitus, an important but specialized aspect of audiology and otolaryngology. Testing involved evaluating ChatGPT’s answers to a defined set of 10 questions on tinnitus. Furthermore, given the technology is advancing quickly, we re-evaluated the responses to the same 10 questions 3 and 6 months later. The accuracy of the responses was rated by 6 experts (the authors) using a Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5. Most of ChatGPT’s responses were rated as satisfactory or better. However, we did detect a few instances where the responses were not accurate and might be considered somewhat misleading. Over the first 3 months, the ratings generally improved, but there was no more significant improvement at 6 months. In our judgment, ChatGPT provided unexpectedly good responses, given that the questions were quite specific. Although no potentially harmful errors were identified, some mistakes could be seen as somewhat misleading. ChatGPT shows great potential if further developed by experts in specific areas, but for now, it is not yet ready for serious application. Full article
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Improving Audiology Student Training by Clinical Simulation of Tinnitus: A Glimpse of the Lived Experience of Tinnitus
by Pierre H. Bourez, Guillaume T. Vallet and Philippe Fournier
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(9), 1338; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13091338 - 17 Sep 2023
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Purpose: Student audiology training in tinnitus evaluation and management is heterogeneous and has been found to be insufficient. We designed a new clinical simulation laboratory for training students on psychoacoustic measurements of tinnitus: one student plays the role of the tinnitus patient, wearing [...] Read more.
Purpose: Student audiology training in tinnitus evaluation and management is heterogeneous and has been found to be insufficient. We designed a new clinical simulation laboratory for training students on psychoacoustic measurements of tinnitus: one student plays the role of the tinnitus patient, wearing a device producing a sound like tinnitus on one ear, while another student plays the role of the audiologist, evaluating their condition. The objective of the study was to test this new clinical simulation laboratory of tinnitus from the perspective of the students. Method: This study reports the findings from twenty-one audiology students (20 female and 1 male, mean age = 29, SD = 7.7) who participated in this laboratory for a mandatory audiology class at the Laval University of Quebec. Three students had hearing loss (one mild, two moderate). All students played the role of both the clinician and the patient, alternately. They also had to fill out a questionnaire about their overall experience of the laboratory. Results: The qualitative analysis revealed three main themes: “Benefits of the laboratory on future practice”, “Barriers and facilitators of the psychoacoustic assessment”, and “Awareness of living with tinnitus”. The participants reported that this experience would have a positive impact on their ability to manage tinnitus patients in their future career. Conclusion: This fast, cheap, and effective clinical simulation method could be used by audiology and other healthcare educators to strengthen students’ skills and confidence in tinnitus evaluation and management. The protocol is made available to all interested parties. Full article
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The Analogy between Tinnitus and Chronic Pain: A Phenomenological Approach
by Arnaud J. Norena
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(8), 1129; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081129 - 27 Jul 2023
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Tinnitus is an auditory sensation without external acoustic stimulation or significance, which may be lived as an unpleasant experience and impact the subject’s quality of life. Tinnitus loudness, which is generally low, bears no relation to distress. Factors other than psychoacoustic (such as [...] Read more.
Tinnitus is an auditory sensation without external acoustic stimulation or significance, which may be lived as an unpleasant experience and impact the subject’s quality of life. Tinnitus loudness, which is generally low, bears no relation to distress. Factors other than psychoacoustic (such as psychological factors) are therefore implicated in the way tinnitus is experienced. The aim of this article is to attempt to understand how tinnitus can, like chronic pain, generate a ‘crisis’ in the process of existence, which may go as far as the collapse of the subject. The main idea put forward in the present article is that tinnitus may be compared to the phenomenon of pain from the point of view of the way it is experienced. Although the analogy between tinnitus and pain has often been made in the literature, it has been limited to a parallel concerning putative physiopathological mechanisms and has never really been explored in depth from the phenomenological point of view. Tinnitus is comparable to pain inasmuch as it is felt, not perceived: it springs up (without intention or exploration), abolishes the distance between the subject and the sensation (there is only a subject and no object), and has nothing to say about the world. Like pain, tinnitus is formless and abnormal and can alter the normal order of the world with maximum intensity. Finally, tinnitus and pain enclose the subject within the limits of the body, which then becomes in excess. Tinnitus may be a source of suffering, which affects not only the body but a person’s very existence and, in particular, its deployment in time. Plans are thus abolished, so time is no longer ‘secreted’, it is enclosed in an eternal present. If the crisis triggered by tinnitus is not resolved, the subject may buckle and collapse (depression) when their resources for resisting are depleted. The path may be long and winding from the moment when tinnitus emerges to when it assaults existence and its eventual integration into a new existential norm where tinnitus is no longer a source of disturbance. Full article
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