Title :
Oscillation and Its Inhibition in A Neural Oscillator Model for Tinnitus
Author :
Fujimoto, Ken Ichi ; Nagashino, Hirofumi ; Kinouchi, Yohsuke ; Danesh, Ali A. ; Pandya, Abhijit S.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Medicine, Tokushima Univ.
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
Tinnitus is a symptom of perceiving phantom sounds. As one of its treatment techniques, tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) has been proposed. It consists of psychotherapy by counseling and physical therapy based on masking theory by external stimuli. Our interest is to explain medical effects of the physical therapy from the viewpoint of engineering. In this paper we proposed a neural oscillator model with plasticity as a model for the tinnitus generation in the auditory central nervous system and its treatment. We investigated not only oscillatory phenomena observed in the model but also inhibition of the oscillation by external stimulus
Keywords :
hearing; neurophysiology; patient treatment; physiological models; psychology; auditory central nervous system; external stimulus; inhibition; neural oscillator model; phantom sound perception; physical therapy; plasticity; psychotherapy; tinnitus retraining therapy; Acoustical engineering; Bifurcation; Biomedical engineering; Central nervous system; Employee welfare; Imaging phantoms; Medical treatment; Neurons; Oscillators; Psychology;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259904
