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Publication Date: 2019-Sep
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Test-Retest Reproducibility of Response Duration in Tinnitus Patients with Positive Residual Inhibition
Deklerck, Ann N.; Degeest, Sofie; Dhooge, Ingeborg J. M.; Keppler, Hannah
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v62 n9 p3531-3544 Sep 2019
Purpose: Functional imaging is often used to try to elucidate the pathophysiological mechanism of tinnitus. Residual inhibition, the temporary suppression of tinnitus after application of a masking noise, could be an interesting technique to modulate tinnitus perception in functional imaging paradigms. The purposes of this study were to primarily assess reproducibility of the (partial) positive residual inhibition response duration in patients with tinnitus and to explore its utility in experimental designs. Method: Patients with tinnitus exhibiting a (partial) positive residual inhibition response or tinnitus reduction after a 1-min white noise presentation were selected from a broad consulting tinnitus population. In 27 patients, this response was tested 4 times: twice during initial testing and twice during a retest of the psychoacoustic tinnitus measures, 4-8 weeks after initial consultation. In 17 patients with stable residual inhibition responses, reproducibility of response duration, the duration of tinnitus reduction up to pretesting state, was analyzed. Results: Initial testing showed a residual inhibition duration of 29.5 s on average. Test-retest reproducibility of response duration was shown to be reliable with an ICC(3, 4) of 0.871 (95% CI [0.733, 0.948]) and a standard error of measurement of 6.64 s. Conclusions: This study indicates the good test-retest reproducibility of residual inhibition duration in our subset of 17 patients with stable (partial) positive residual inhibition. Residual inhibition is, therefore, a technique that can potentially be used for temporary tinnitus manipulation in experimental paradigms to unravel tinnitus pathophysiology.
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Patients, Inhibition, Responses, Pathology, Physiology, Diagnostic Tests
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