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Playing and Listening to Tailor-Made Notched Music: Cortical Plasticity Induced by Unimodal and Multimodal Training in Tinnitus Patients
Joint Authors
Pape, Janna
Paraskevopoulos, Evangelos
Bruchmann, Maximilian
Wollbrink, Andreas
Rudack, Claudia
Pantev, Christo
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-05-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background.
The generation and maintenance of tinnitus are assumed to be based on maladaptive functional cortical reorganization.
Listening to modified music, which contains no energy in the range of the individual tinnitus frequency, can inhibit the corresponding neuronal activity in the auditory cortex.
Music making has been shown to be a powerful stimulator for brain plasticity, inducing changes in multiple sensory systems.
Using magnetoencephalographic (MEG) and behavioral measurements we evaluated the cortical plasticity effects of two months of (a) active listening to (unisensory) versus (b) learning to play (multisensory) tailor-made notched music in nonmusician tinnitus patients.
Taking into account the fact that uni- and multisensory trainings induce different patterns of cortical plasticity we hypothesized that these two protocols will have different affects.
Results.
Only the active listening (unisensory) group showed significant reduction of tinnitus related activity of the middle temporal cortex and an increase in the activity of a tinnitus-coping related posterior parietal area.
Conclusions.
These findings indicate that active listening to tailor-made notched music induces greater neuroplastic changes in the maladaptively reorganized cortical network of tinnitus patients while additional integration of other sensory modalities during training reduces these neuroplastic effects.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Pape, Janna& Paraskevopoulos, Evangelos& Bruchmann, Maximilian& Wollbrink, Andreas& Rudack, Claudia& Pantev, Christo. 2014. Playing and Listening to Tailor-Made Notched Music: Cortical Plasticity Induced by Unimodal and Multimodal Training in Tinnitus Patients. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1046701
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Pape, Janna…[et al.]. Playing and Listening to Tailor-Made Notched Music: Cortical Plasticity Induced by Unimodal and Multimodal Training in Tinnitus Patients. Neural Plasticity No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1046701
American Medical Association (AMA)
Pape, Janna& Paraskevopoulos, Evangelos& Bruchmann, Maximilian& Wollbrink, Andreas& Rudack, Claudia& Pantev, Christo. Playing and Listening to Tailor-Made Notched Music: Cortical Plasticity Induced by Unimodal and Multimodal Training in Tinnitus Patients. Neural Plasticity. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1046701
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1046701