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.

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

5547

Lastpage

5550

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259904

Filename

4463062