title: The use of fractal tones in tinnitus patient management.
abstract: A variety of noises have been employed for decades in an effort to facilitate habituation, mask, or suppress tinnitus. Many of these sounds have reportedly provided benefit, but success has not been universal. More recently, musical stimuli have been added as a sound therapy component. The potential advantages of using such stimuli, in particular fractal tones, in combination with amplification are discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA. sweetow@ohns.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Sweetow
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D017709:Fractals; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D009147:Music Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000628:therapy*