title: Effects of severe bothersome tinnitus on cognitive function measured with standardized tests.
abstract: Neurocognitive tests compared abilities in people with bothersome tinnitus against an age-, gender-, and education-matched normative population. Participants between 18 and 60 years had subjective, unilateral or bilateral, nonpulsatile tinnitus for >6 months and a Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score of ≥ 38. Results from a first testing session showed deficits in learning, learning rates, immediate recall of heard words, and use of a serial order encoding strategy. Initial reliance on serial order encoding and, later, increased intrusion of incorrect words towards normal levels might indicate a less demanding strategy to compensate for weakness in associative memory for semantic categories.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. piercek@psychiatry.wustl.edu
authors.forename: Katherine J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Pierce
authors.forename: Dorina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kallogjeri
authors.forename: Jay F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Piccirillo
authors.forename: Keith S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Joyce E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Nicklaus
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Burton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult