Effect of tinnitus on the performance of central auditory system: a review
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Abstract
Background and Aim: Tinnitus is one of the most difficult challenges in audiology and otology. Previous studies have been shown that tinnitus may interfere with the function of central auditory system (CAS). Involvement of CAS abilities including speech perception and auditory processing has led to serious problems in people with tinnitus. Due to the lack of enough information about the impact of tinnitus on CAS and its function, and given that there is no standardized protocol for assessment and management of tinnitus, this study aimed to review the studies on the effect of tinnitus on the CAS function.
Recent Findings: Sixteen eligible articles were reviewed. Temporal and spectral resolution, frequency differentiation and speech perception deficits were reported in patients with tinnitus, especially in background noise. This was reported even in tinnitus patients with normal hearing.
Conclusion: Assessment of central auditory processing and speech perception in noise seems to be useful for proper management of tinnitus in clinical practice.
1. Najafi S, Rouzbahani M. Auditory evoked potential P300 characteristics in adults with and without idiopathic bilateral tinnitus. Aud Vestib Res. 2020. 29(4):220-6. doi: 10.18502/avr.v29i4.4641
2. Bhatt JM, Lin HW, Bhattacharyya N. Prevalence, severity, exposures, and treatment patterns of tinnitus in the United States. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016;142(10):959-65. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2016.1700
3. Haider HF, Hoare DJ, Costa RFP, Potgieter I, Kikidis D, Lapira A, et al. Pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of somatosensory tinnitus: a scoping review. Front Neurosci. 2017;11:207. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00207
4. Soalheiro M, Rocha L, do Vale DF, Fontes V, Valente D, Teixeira LR. Speech recognition index of workers with tinnitus exposed to environmental or occupational noise: a comparative study. J Occup Med Toxicol. 2012;7(1):26. doi: 10.1186/1745-6673-7-26
5. Masterson EA, Themann CL, Luckhaupt SE, Li J, Calvert GM. Hearing difficulty and tinnitus among U.S. workers and non-workers in 2007. Am J Ind Med. 2016;59(4):290-300. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22565
6. Jafari A, Badiei R, yarmohammad tooski M, Kohansal B. [The effect of N-Acetylcysteine on the reduction of permanent noise-induced hearing loss in workers at Hepco Company]. Journal of Arak University of Medical Sciences. 2011;14(5):11-7. Persian.
7. Haider HF, Bojić T, Ribeiro SF, Paço J, Hall DA, Szczepek AJ. Pathophysiology of subjective tinnitus: triggers and maintenance. Front Neurosci. 2018;12:866. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00866
8. Jafari Z. Toufan R, Aghamollaei M. Ebrahimzadeh SH. Esmaili M. [Impact of industrial noise-induced hearing disorders on workers cognition and auditory memory]. J Sabzevar Univ Med Sci. 2013;20(3):259-69. Persian.
9. Vielsmeier V, Kreuzer PM, Haubner F, Steffens T, Semmler PRO, Kleinjung T, et al. Speech comprehension difficulties in chronic tinnitus and its relation to hyperacusis. Front Aging Neurosci. 2016;8:293. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00293
10. Musiek RE, Shinn JB, Jirsa R, Bamiou DE, Baran JA, Zaida E. GIN (gaps-in-noise) test performance in subjects with confirmed central auditory nervous system involvement. Ear Hear. 2005;26(6):608-18. doi: 10.1097/01.aud.0000188069.80699.41
11. Diges I, Simón F, Cobo P. Assessing auditory processing deficits in tinnitus and hearing impaired patients with the auditory behavior questionnaire. Front Neurosci. 2017;11:187. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00187
12. Lanting CP, de Kleine E, Bartels H, Van Dijk P. Functional imaging of unilateral tinnitus using fMRI. Acta Otolaryngol. 2008;128(4):415-21. doi: 10.1080/00016480701793743
13. Moossavi A, Najafi S. Transcranial direct current stimulation in treatment of tinnitus. Aud Vestib Res. 2021;30(1):1-8. doi: 10.18502/avr.v30i1.5305
14. Mehdizade Gilani V, Ruzbahani M, Mahdi P, Amali A, Nilforush Khoshk MH, Sameni J, et al. Temporal processing evaluation in tinnitus patients: results on analysis of gap in noise and duration pattern test. Iran J Otorhinolaryngol. 2013;25(4):221-6. doi: 10.22038/IJORL.2013.1951
15. Ibraheem OA, Hassan MR. Psychoacoustic characteristics of tinnitus versus temporal resolution in subjects with normal hearing sensitivity. Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2017;21(2):144-50. doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1583526
16. Lopez-Poveda EA, Barrios P. Perception of stochastically undersampled sound waveforms: a model of auditory deafferentation. Front Neurosci. 2013;7:124. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00124
17. Pichora-Fuller MK, Schneider BA, Macdonald E, Pass HE, Brown S. Temporal jitter disrupts speech intelligibility: a simulation of auditory aging. Hear Res. 2007;223(1-2):114-21. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.10.009
18. Sanches SGG, Sanches TG, Carvallo RMM. Influence of cochlear function on auditory temporal resolution in tinnitus patients. Audiol Neurootol. 2010;15(5):273-81. doi: 10.1159/000272939
19. Huang CY, Lee HH, Chung KC, Chen HC, Shen YJ, Wu JL. Relationships among speech perception, self-rated tinnitus loudness and disability in tinnitus patients with normal pure-tone thresholds of hearing. ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec. 2007;69(1):25-9. doi: 10.1159/000096713
20. Mertens G, Punte AK, De Ridder D, Van de Heyning P. Tinnitus in a single-sided deaf ear reduces speech reception in the non-tinnitus ear. Otol Neurotol. 2013;34(4):662-6. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31828779f0
21. Oosterloo BC, Homans NC, Goedegebure A. Tinnitus affects speech in noise comprehension in individuals with hearing loss. Otol Neurotol. 2020;41(9):e1074-81. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000002733
22. Jain C, Sahoo JP. The effect of tinnitus on some psychoacoustical abilities in individuals with normal hearing sensitivity. Int Tinnitus J. 2014;19(1):28-35. doi: 10.5935/0946-5448.20140004
23. Epp B, Hots J, Verhey JL, Schaette R. Increased intensity discrimination thresholds in tinnitus subjects with a normal audiogram. J Acoust Soc Am. 2012;132(3):EL196-201. doi: 10.1121/1.4740462
24. An YH, Jin YS, Yoon SW, Shim HJ. The effects of unilateral tinnitus on auditory temporal resolution: gaps-in-noise performance. Korean J Audiol. 2014;18(3):119-25. doi: 10.7874/kja.2014.18.3.119
25. Zeng FG, Richardson M, Turner K. Tinnitus does not interfere with auditory and speech perception. J Neurosci. 2020;40(31):6007-17. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0396-20.2020
26. Holdefer L, Oliveira CA, Venosa AR. The mismatch negativity test in ears with and without tinnitus-a path to the objectification of tinnitus. Int Tinnitus J. 2013;18(2):168-74. doi: 10.5935/0946-5448.20130022
27 Milloy V, Fournier P, Benoit D, Noreña A, Koravand A. Auditory brainstem responses in tinnitus: a review of who, how, and what? Aging Neurosci. 2017;9:1-18. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00237
28 Mahmoudian S, Farhadi M, Najafi-Koopaiec M, Darestani-Farahani E, Mohebbib M, Denglere R, et al. Central auditory processing during chronic tinnitus as indexed by topographical maps of the mismatch negativity obtained with the multi-feature paradigm. Brain Res. 2013;1527:161-73. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.06.019
29 Schaette R, McAlpine D. Tinnitus with a normal audiogram: physiological evidence for hidden hearing loss and computational model. J Neurosci. 2011;31(38):13452-7. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2156-11.2011
30 Moon IJ, Won JH, Kang HW, Kim DH, An YH, Shim HJ. Influence of tinnitus on auditory spectral and temporal resolution and speech perception in tinnitus patients. J Neurosci. 2015;35(42):14260-9. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5091-14.2015
31 Gilles A, Schlee W, Rabau S, Wouters K, Fransen E, Van de Heyning P. Decreased speech-in-noise understanding in young adults with tinnitus. Front Neurosci. 2016;10:288. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00288
32 Van Eynde C, Denys S, Desloovere C, Wouters J, Verhaert N. Speech-in-noise testing as a marker for noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. B-ENT. 2016;Suppl 26(1):185-91.
33 Jain S, Dwarkanath VM. Effect of tinnitus location on the psychoacoustic measures of hearing. Hear Balance Commun. 2016;14(1):8-19. doi: 10.3109/21695717.2016.1099885
34 Yamashita D. Oxidative stress in noise-induced hearing loss. In Miller J, Le Prell C, Rybak L, editors. Free radicals in ENT pathology. Oxidative stress in applied basic research and clinical practice. Cham: Humana Press; 2015. p.147-61. :doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-13473-4_8
35 Cuny C, Chéry-Croze S, Bougeant JC, Koenig O. Investigation of functional hemispheric asymmetry of language in tinnitus sufferers. Neuropsychology. 2004;18(2):384-92. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.2.384
36 Melcher JR, Levine RA, Bergevin C, Norris B. The auditory midbrain of people with tinnitus: abnormal sound-evoked activity revisited. Hear Res. 2009;257(1-2):63-74. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.08.005
37 Watts EJ, Fackrell K, Smith S, Sheldrake J, Haider H, Hoare DJ. Why is tinnitus a problem? a qualitative analysis of problems reported by tinnitus patients. Trends Hear. 2018;22:2331216518812250. doi: 10.1177/2331216518812250
38 Henderson D, Bielefeld EC, Harris KC, Hu BH. The role of oxidative stress in noise-induced hearing loss. Ear Hear. 2006;27(1):1-19. doi: 10.1097/01.aud.0000191942.36672.f3
39 Paglialonga A, Fiocchi S, Del Bo L, Ravazzani P, Tognola G. Quantitative analysis of cochlear active mechanisms in tinnitus subjects with normal hearing sensitivity: Time-frequency analysis of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions and contralateral suppression. Auris Nasus Larynx. 2011;38(1):33-40. doi: 10.1016/j.anl.2010.04.006
40 Hébert S, Lupien SJ. Salivary cortisol levels, subjective stress, and tinnitus intensity in tinnitus sufferers during noise exposure in the laboratory. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2009;212(1):37-44. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2007.11.005
2. Bhatt JM, Lin HW, Bhattacharyya N. Prevalence, severity, exposures, and treatment patterns of tinnitus in the United States. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016;142(10):959-65. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2016.1700
3. Haider HF, Hoare DJ, Costa RFP, Potgieter I, Kikidis D, Lapira A, et al. Pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of somatosensory tinnitus: a scoping review. Front Neurosci. 2017;11:207. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00207
4. Soalheiro M, Rocha L, do Vale DF, Fontes V, Valente D, Teixeira LR. Speech recognition index of workers with tinnitus exposed to environmental or occupational noise: a comparative study. J Occup Med Toxicol. 2012;7(1):26. doi: 10.1186/1745-6673-7-26
5. Masterson EA, Themann CL, Luckhaupt SE, Li J, Calvert GM. Hearing difficulty and tinnitus among U.S. workers and non-workers in 2007. Am J Ind Med. 2016;59(4):290-300. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22565
6. Jafari A, Badiei R, yarmohammad tooski M, Kohansal B. [The effect of N-Acetylcysteine on the reduction of permanent noise-induced hearing loss in workers at Hepco Company]. Journal of Arak University of Medical Sciences. 2011;14(5):11-7. Persian.
7. Haider HF, Bojić T, Ribeiro SF, Paço J, Hall DA, Szczepek AJ. Pathophysiology of subjective tinnitus: triggers and maintenance. Front Neurosci. 2018;12:866. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00866
8. Jafari Z. Toufan R, Aghamollaei M. Ebrahimzadeh SH. Esmaili M. [Impact of industrial noise-induced hearing disorders on workers cognition and auditory memory]. J Sabzevar Univ Med Sci. 2013;20(3):259-69. Persian.
9. Vielsmeier V, Kreuzer PM, Haubner F, Steffens T, Semmler PRO, Kleinjung T, et al. Speech comprehension difficulties in chronic tinnitus and its relation to hyperacusis. Front Aging Neurosci. 2016;8:293. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00293
10. Musiek RE, Shinn JB, Jirsa R, Bamiou DE, Baran JA, Zaida E. GIN (gaps-in-noise) test performance in subjects with confirmed central auditory nervous system involvement. Ear Hear. 2005;26(6):608-18. doi: 10.1097/01.aud.0000188069.80699.41
11. Diges I, Simón F, Cobo P. Assessing auditory processing deficits in tinnitus and hearing impaired patients with the auditory behavior questionnaire. Front Neurosci. 2017;11:187. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00187
12. Lanting CP, de Kleine E, Bartels H, Van Dijk P. Functional imaging of unilateral tinnitus using fMRI. Acta Otolaryngol. 2008;128(4):415-21. doi: 10.1080/00016480701793743
13. Moossavi A, Najafi S. Transcranial direct current stimulation in treatment of tinnitus. Aud Vestib Res. 2021;30(1):1-8. doi: 10.18502/avr.v30i1.5305
14. Mehdizade Gilani V, Ruzbahani M, Mahdi P, Amali A, Nilforush Khoshk MH, Sameni J, et al. Temporal processing evaluation in tinnitus patients: results on analysis of gap in noise and duration pattern test. Iran J Otorhinolaryngol. 2013;25(4):221-6. doi: 10.22038/IJORL.2013.1951
15. Ibraheem OA, Hassan MR. Psychoacoustic characteristics of tinnitus versus temporal resolution in subjects with normal hearing sensitivity. Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2017;21(2):144-50. doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1583526
16. Lopez-Poveda EA, Barrios P. Perception of stochastically undersampled sound waveforms: a model of auditory deafferentation. Front Neurosci. 2013;7:124. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00124
17. Pichora-Fuller MK, Schneider BA, Macdonald E, Pass HE, Brown S. Temporal jitter disrupts speech intelligibility: a simulation of auditory aging. Hear Res. 2007;223(1-2):114-21. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.10.009
18. Sanches SGG, Sanches TG, Carvallo RMM. Influence of cochlear function on auditory temporal resolution in tinnitus patients. Audiol Neurootol. 2010;15(5):273-81. doi: 10.1159/000272939
19. Huang CY, Lee HH, Chung KC, Chen HC, Shen YJ, Wu JL. Relationships among speech perception, self-rated tinnitus loudness and disability in tinnitus patients with normal pure-tone thresholds of hearing. ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec. 2007;69(1):25-9. doi: 10.1159/000096713
20. Mertens G, Punte AK, De Ridder D, Van de Heyning P. Tinnitus in a single-sided deaf ear reduces speech reception in the non-tinnitus ear. Otol Neurotol. 2013;34(4):662-6. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31828779f0
21. Oosterloo BC, Homans NC, Goedegebure A. Tinnitus affects speech in noise comprehension in individuals with hearing loss. Otol Neurotol. 2020;41(9):e1074-81. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000002733
22. Jain C, Sahoo JP. The effect of tinnitus on some psychoacoustical abilities in individuals with normal hearing sensitivity. Int Tinnitus J. 2014;19(1):28-35. doi: 10.5935/0946-5448.20140004
23. Epp B, Hots J, Verhey JL, Schaette R. Increased intensity discrimination thresholds in tinnitus subjects with a normal audiogram. J Acoust Soc Am. 2012;132(3):EL196-201. doi: 10.1121/1.4740462
24. An YH, Jin YS, Yoon SW, Shim HJ. The effects of unilateral tinnitus on auditory temporal resolution: gaps-in-noise performance. Korean J Audiol. 2014;18(3):119-25. doi: 10.7874/kja.2014.18.3.119
25. Zeng FG, Richardson M, Turner K. Tinnitus does not interfere with auditory and speech perception. J Neurosci. 2020;40(31):6007-17. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0396-20.2020
26. Holdefer L, Oliveira CA, Venosa AR. The mismatch negativity test in ears with and without tinnitus-a path to the objectification of tinnitus. Int Tinnitus J. 2013;18(2):168-74. doi: 10.5935/0946-5448.20130022
27 Milloy V, Fournier P, Benoit D, Noreña A, Koravand A. Auditory brainstem responses in tinnitus: a review of who, how, and what? Aging Neurosci. 2017;9:1-18. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00237
28 Mahmoudian S, Farhadi M, Najafi-Koopaiec M, Darestani-Farahani E, Mohebbib M, Denglere R, et al. Central auditory processing during chronic tinnitus as indexed by topographical maps of the mismatch negativity obtained with the multi-feature paradigm. Brain Res. 2013;1527:161-73. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.06.019
29 Schaette R, McAlpine D. Tinnitus with a normal audiogram: physiological evidence for hidden hearing loss and computational model. J Neurosci. 2011;31(38):13452-7. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2156-11.2011
30 Moon IJ, Won JH, Kang HW, Kim DH, An YH, Shim HJ. Influence of tinnitus on auditory spectral and temporal resolution and speech perception in tinnitus patients. J Neurosci. 2015;35(42):14260-9. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5091-14.2015
31 Gilles A, Schlee W, Rabau S, Wouters K, Fransen E, Van de Heyning P. Decreased speech-in-noise understanding in young adults with tinnitus. Front Neurosci. 2016;10:288. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00288
32 Van Eynde C, Denys S, Desloovere C, Wouters J, Verhaert N. Speech-in-noise testing as a marker for noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. B-ENT. 2016;Suppl 26(1):185-91.
33 Jain S, Dwarkanath VM. Effect of tinnitus location on the psychoacoustic measures of hearing. Hear Balance Commun. 2016;14(1):8-19. doi: 10.3109/21695717.2016.1099885
34 Yamashita D. Oxidative stress in noise-induced hearing loss. In Miller J, Le Prell C, Rybak L, editors. Free radicals in ENT pathology. Oxidative stress in applied basic research and clinical practice. Cham: Humana Press; 2015. p.147-61. :doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-13473-4_8
35 Cuny C, Chéry-Croze S, Bougeant JC, Koenig O. Investigation of functional hemispheric asymmetry of language in tinnitus sufferers. Neuropsychology. 2004;18(2):384-92. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.2.384
36 Melcher JR, Levine RA, Bergevin C, Norris B. The auditory midbrain of people with tinnitus: abnormal sound-evoked activity revisited. Hear Res. 2009;257(1-2):63-74. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.08.005
37 Watts EJ, Fackrell K, Smith S, Sheldrake J, Haider H, Hoare DJ. Why is tinnitus a problem? a qualitative analysis of problems reported by tinnitus patients. Trends Hear. 2018;22:2331216518812250. doi: 10.1177/2331216518812250
38 Henderson D, Bielefeld EC, Harris KC, Hu BH. The role of oxidative stress in noise-induced hearing loss. Ear Hear. 2006;27(1):1-19. doi: 10.1097/01.aud.0000191942.36672.f3
39 Paglialonga A, Fiocchi S, Del Bo L, Ravazzani P, Tognola G. Quantitative analysis of cochlear active mechanisms in tinnitus subjects with normal hearing sensitivity: Time-frequency analysis of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions and contralateral suppression. Auris Nasus Larynx. 2011;38(1):33-40. doi: 10.1016/j.anl.2010.04.006
40 Hébert S, Lupien SJ. Salivary cortisol levels, subjective stress, and tinnitus intensity in tinnitus sufferers during noise exposure in the laboratory. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2009;212(1):37-44. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2007.11.005
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Kohansal B, Asghari M, Najafi S, Hamedi F. Effect of tinnitus on the performance of central auditory system: a review. Aud Vestib Res. 2021;30(4):232-240.
