title: Reversing pathologically increased EEG power by acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation.
abstract: Acoustic Coordinated Reset (CR) neuromodulation is a patterned stimulation with tones adjusted to the patient's dominant tinnitus frequency, which aims at desynchronizing pathological neuronal synchronization. In a recent proof-of-concept study, CR therapy, delivered 4-6 h/day more than 12 weeks, induced a significant clinical improvement along with a significant long-lasting decrease of pathological oscillatory power in the low frequency as well as γ band and an increase of the α power in a network of tinnitus-related brain areas. As yet, it remains unclear whether CR shifts the brain activity toward physiological levels or whether it induces clinically beneficial, but nonetheless abnormal electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns, for example excessively decreased δ and/or γ. Here, we compared the patients' spontaneous EEG data at baseline as well as after 12 weeks of CR therapy with the spontaneous EEG of healthy controls by means of Brain Electrical Source Analysis source montage and standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography techniques. The relationship between changes in EEG power and clinical scores was investigated using a partial least squares approach. In this way, we show that acoustic CR neuromodulation leads to a normalization of the oscillatory power in the tinnitus-related network of brain areas, most prominently in temporal regions. A positive association was found between the changes in tinnitus severity and the normalization of δ and γ power in the temporal, parietal, and cingulate cortical regions. Our findings demonstrate a widespread CR-induced normalization of EEG power, significantly associated with a reduction of tinnitus severity.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine-Neuromodulation (INM-7), Jülich Research Center, Jülich, Germany.
authors.forename: Ilya
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Adamchic
authors.forename: Timea
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toth
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hauptmann
authors.forename: Peter Alexander
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Tass
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D059906:Neuroimaging; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D064232:Visual Analog Scale
keywords: desynchronization; electroencephalography; non-invasive neuromodulation; phantom perception; tinnitus treatment
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