Related articles on NFB via PUBMED, in re Tinnitus

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Of course there are few studies if ANY related to 4S/miso yet and only a few on

the much more common auditory plague, tinnitus. But I encourage each of you to

research and learn thoroughly about applications and findings on PUBMED (google

that) and you will find what has been peer-reviewed and published.

Anything other than peer-reviewed and published is....hearsay. Even with the

best intentions, it remains as anedcotal for now.

We need to push for research and scientists to study our concern. A colleague

and I applied for a small grant last fall to begin studying 4S/Miso. Not sure

if we will get it or not, but we are trying.

Here are a couple abstracts:

Neurofeedback by neural correlates of auditory selective attention as possible

application for tinnitus therapies.

Busse M, Low YF, Corona-Strauss FI, Delb W, Strauss DJ.

SourceComputational Diagnostics and Biocybernetics Unit at Saarland University

Hospital and Saarland University of Applied Sciences, Homburg/Saarbruecken,

Germany. busse@...

Abstract

More and more people are suffering from tinnitus. There are many treatments for

tinnitus that have been claimed based on different causes. Unfortunately, until

now none of the existing treatments has been found to be effective in general.

Here, we would like to suggest a treatment to tinnitus based on neurofeedback

using neural correlates of auditory selective evoked potentials (ASEPs). We have

shown that the wavelet phase synchronization of auditory late responses (ALR)

single sweeps allows for a direct online monitoring of phase locked auditory

attention. The results show that after a simple training, subjects learned to

control their attention to the auditory modality. To improve the ability in the

attention control system is an objective of many tinnitus treatments, so that

the perception of the patients towards the tinnitus noise can be reduced to a

minimum. It is concluded that our proposed neurofeedback system by wavelet phase

synchronization measure might be used in a clinical treatment of tinnitus

patients and it is possible to extent to other therapeutic based control

systems.

Eur Radiol. 2010 Mar;20(3):696-703. Epub 2009 Sep 16.

Real-time fMRI feedback training may improve chronic tinnitus.

Haller S, Birbaumer N, Veit R.

SourceInstitute of Radiology, Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital

Basel, sgraben 4, CH 4031 Basel, Switzerland. shaller@...

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Tinnitus consists of a more or less constant aversive tone or noise

and is associated with excess auditory activation. Transient distortion of this

activation (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, rTMS) may improve

tinnitus. Recently proposed operant training in real-time functional magnetic

resonance imaging (rtfMRI) neurofeedback allows voluntary modification of

specific circumscribed neuronal activations. Combining these observations, we

investigated whether patients suffering from tinnitus can (1) learn to

voluntarily reduce activation of the auditory system by rtfMRI neurofeedback and

whether (2) successful learning improves tinnitus symptoms.

METHODS: Six participants with chronic tinnitus were included. First, location

of the individual auditory cortex was determined in a standard fMRI auditory

block-design localizer. Then, participants were trained to voluntarily reduce

the auditory activation (rtfMRI) with visual biofeedback of the current auditory

activation.

RESULTS: Auditory activation significantly decreased after rtfMRI neurofeedback.

This reduced the subjective tinnitus in two of six participants.

CONCLUSION: These preliminary results suggest that tinnitus patients learn to

voluntarily reduce spatially specific auditory activations by rtfMRI

neurofeedback and that this may reduce tinnitus symptoms. Optimized training

protocols (frequency, duration, etc.) may further improve the results.