The Neuroscience of Tinnitus
Jos J. Eggermont
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- ISBN:
- 9780199605606
- Published:
- 3 Jun 2012
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Tinnitus - the perception of sound in the ear, in the absence of external sound - affects around 250 million people worldwide. Being a subjective phenomenon, it is more difficult to measure, and it is only in the past decade that it has become the subject of intensive scientific research. Research in neuroscience has revealed how tinnitus is generated by the brain when hearing loss occurs, and this research has played a part in helping us understand the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of this disorder. The Neuroscience of Tinnitus reviews our current knowledge of the neural substrates of tinnitus. It draws heavily on the author's own extensive work in this field, and will be divided into two parts, the first focusing on human models, the second on animal models. The book is intended primarily for auditory neuroscientists, but will also be of interest to those in audiology, psychology, neurology, and otolaryngology.
1: What is tinnitus?
2: Epidemiology and etiology
3: Listening to tinnitus
4: Objective assessment of tinnitus
5: Do animals have tinnitus?
6: The salicylate model of tinnitus
7: The sensorineural hearing loss model of tinnitus.
8: The somatic tinnitus model
9: The neural synchrony model of tinnitus
10: Tinnitus and aging
11: Hyperactivity and hypersynchrony in neural networks as substrates for tinnitus?
12: Management of tinnitus
13: Future directions
14: References
Jos J. Eggermont , Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Canada
Jos Eggermont received his M.Sc. in Experimental Physics (1967) and a Ph.D. in Physics (1972, cum laude) from the University of Leyden, The Netherlands. From 1972-1978 he was a Research Associate, ENT Department, Leyden University Hospital, interrupted for a sabbatical leave at the Ear Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA. From 1978-1986 he served as professor in experimental physics at the University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 1986 he moved to Calgary, Canada and became an Alberta Heritage Foundation of Medical Research Scientist and professor in Physiology and Pharmacology, and Psychology at the University of Calgary. In 1997 he was named Campbell McLaurin Chair for Hearing Deficiencies. His research interest is the auditory system in general and auditory cortical plasticity in particular. He has studied the consequences of early deafness and noise-induced hearing loss in with respect to use-dependent plasticity in the cortex.