• Otol. Neurotol. · Dec 2018

    Tinnitus Impacts on Speech and Non-speech Stimuli.

    • Shaghayegh Omidvar, Saeid Mahmoudian, Mehdi Khabazkhoob, Mohsen Ahadi, and Zahra Jafari.
    • Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz.
    • Otol. Neurotol. 2018 Dec 1; 39 (10): e921-e928.

    ObjectiveTo investigate how tinnitus affects the processing of speech and non-speech stimuli at the subcortical level.Study DesignCross-sectional analytical study.SettingAcademic, tertiary referral center.PatientsEighteen individuals with tinnitus and 20 controls without tinnitus matched based on their age and sex. All subjects had normal hearing sensitivity.InterventionDiagnostic.Main Outcome MeasuresThe effect of tinnitus on the parameters of auditory brainstem responses (ABR) to non-speech (click-ABR), and speech (sABR) stimuli was investigated.ResultsLatencies of click ABR in waves III, V, and Vn, as well as inter-peak latency (IPL) of I to V were significantly longer in individuals with tinnitus compared with the controls. Individuals with tinnitus demonstrated significantly longer latencies of all sABR waves than the control group. The tinnitus patients also exhibited a significant decrease in the slope of the V-A complex and reduced encoding of the first and higher formants. A significant difference was observed between the two groups in the spectral magnitudes, the first formant frequency range (F1) and a higher frequency region (HF).ConclusionsOur findings suggest that maladaptive neural plasticity resulting from tinnitus can be subcortically measured and affects timing processing of both speech and non-speech stimuli. The findings have been discussed based on models of maladaptive plasticity and the interference of tinnitus as an internal noise in synthesizing speech auditory stimuli.

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