title: Tinnitus treatment with sound stimulation during sleep.
abstract: A new strategy for idiopathic subjective tinnitus treatment - sound stimulation during sleep - has been applied. It was based on the acknowledgement that the auditory system also works during sleep, processing the incoming information. Eleven patients were stimulated every night during 6 months. The stimulus was a sound that mimetized the tinnitus and was fixed at the same tinnitus intensity, applied through an iPod. All patients decreased their tinnitus intensity in the first month of treatment (statistically significant), most of them in the first week. Tinnitus intensity continued decreasing in the following weeks; three patients presented periods of total silence.
authors: Instituto Universitario CLAEH, Punta del Este, Uruguay. marisa.pedemonte@gmail.com
authors: Pedemonte
authors: P
authors: M
authors: Drexler
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Rodio
authors: R
authors: S
authors: Geisinger
authors: G
authors: D
authors: Bianco
authors: B
authors: A
authors: Pol-Fernandes
authors: PF
authors: D
authors: Bernhardt
authors: B
authors: V