Different bimodal neuromodulation settings reduce tinnitus symptoms in a large randomized trial.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
30 06 2022
30 06 2022
Historique:
received:
25
01
2022
accepted:
30
05
2022
entrez:
30
6
2022
pubmed:
1
7
2022
medline:
6
7
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
More than 10% of the population suffers from tinnitus, which is a phantom auditory condition that is coded within the brain. A new neuromodulation approach to treat tinnitus has emerged that combines sound with electrical stimulation of somatosensory pathways, supported by multiple animal studies demonstrating that bimodal stimulation can elicit extensive neural plasticity within the auditory brain. More recently, in a large-scale clinical trial, bimodal neuromodulation combining sound and tongue stimulation drove significant reductions in tinnitus symptom severity during the first 6 weeks of treatment, followed by diminishing improvements during the second 6 weeks of treatment. The primary objective of the large-scale randomized and double-blinded study presented in this paper was to determine if background wideband noise as used in the previous clinical trial was necessary for bimodal treatment efficacy. An additional objective was to determine if adjusting the parameter settings after 6 weeks of treatment could overcome treatment habituation effects observed in the previous study. The primary endpoint at 6-weeks involved within-arm and between-arm comparisons for two treatment arms with different bimodal neuromodulation settings based on two widely used and validated outcome instruments, Tinnitus Handicap Inventory and Tinnitus Functional Index. Both treatment arms exhibited a statistically significant reduction in tinnitus symptoms during the first 6-weeks, which was further reduced significantly during the second 6-weeks by changing the parameter settings (Cohen's d effect size for full treatment period per arm and outcome measure ranged from - 0.7 to - 1.4). There were no significant differences between arms, in which tongue stimulation combined with only pure tones and without background wideband noise was sufficient to reduce tinnitus symptoms. These therapeutic effects were sustained up to 12 months after the treatment ended. The study included two additional exploratory arms, including one arm that presented only sound stimuli during the first 6 weeks of treatment and bimodal stimulation in the second 6 weeks of treatment. This arm revealed the criticality of combining tongue stimulation with sound for treatment efficacy. Overall, there were no treatment-related serious adverse events and a high compliance rate (83.8%) with 70.3% of participants indicating benefit. The discovery that adjusting stimulation parameters overcomes previously observed treatment habituation can be used to drive greater therapeutic effects and opens up new opportunities for optimizing stimuli and enhancing clinical outcomes for tinnitus patients with bimodal neuromodulation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35773272
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-13875-x
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-13875-x
pmc: PMC9246951
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Pagination
10845Subventions
Organisme : Wellcome Trust
Pays : United Kingdom
Commentaires et corrections
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© 2022. The Author(s).
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