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A Brain Centred View of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Tinnitus:From Otology to Hodology
Joint Authors
Minichino, Amedeo
Salviati, Massimo
Panico, Roberta
Romano, Graziella Francesca
Mazzei, Filippo
Testugini, Valeria
Altissimi, Giancarlo
Cianfrone, Giancarlo
Bersani, Francesco Saverio
Valeriani, Giuseppe
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-06-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Introduction.
Comorbid psychiatric disorders are frequent among patients affected by tinnitus.
There are mutual clinical influences between tinnitus and psychiatric disorders, as well as neurobiological relations based on partially overlapping hodological and neuroplastic phenomena.
The aim of the present paper is to review the evidence of alterations in brain networks underlying tinnitus physiopathology and to discuss them in light of the current knowledge of the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders.
Methods.
Relevant literature was identified through a search on Medline and PubMed; search terms included tinnitus, brain, plasticity, cortex, network, and pathways.
Results.
Tinnitus phenomenon results from systemic-neurootological triggers followed by neuronal remapping within several auditory and nonauditory pathways.
Plastic reorganization and white matter alterations within limbic system, arcuate fasciculus, insula, salience network, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, auditory pathways, ffrontocortical, and thalamocorticalnetworks are discussed.
Discussion.
Several overlapping brain network alterations do exist between tinnitus and psychiatric disorders.
Tinnitus, initially related to a clinicoanatomical approach based on a cortical localizationism, could be better explained by an holistic or associationist approach considering psychic functions and tinnitus as emergent properties of partially overlapping large-scale neural networks.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Salviati, Massimo& Bersani, Francesco Saverio& Valeriani, Giuseppe& Minichino, Amedeo& Panico, Roberta& Romano, Graziella Francesca…[et al.]. 2014. A Brain Centred View of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Tinnitus:From Otology to Hodology. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1046740
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Salviati, Massimo…[et al.]. A Brain Centred View of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Tinnitus:From Otology to Hodology. Neural Plasticity No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1046740
American Medical Association (AMA)
Salviati, Massimo& Bersani, Francesco Saverio& Valeriani, Giuseppe& Minichino, Amedeo& Panico, Roberta& Romano, Graziella Francesca…[et al.]. A Brain Centred View of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Tinnitus:From Otology to Hodology. Neural Plasticity. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1046740
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1046740