Acronym
Tinnitus
Code
01D22515
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 April 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Biological and physiological psychology
- Cognitive science and intelligent systems
- Developmental psychology and ageing
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Medical and health sciences
- Neurosciences
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Neurosciences
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Speech, language and hearing sciences
- Neurosciences
- Otorhinolaryngology
Keywords
Tinnitus
neurostimulation
fMRI
Project description
This project aims to identify specific tinnitus-causing brain areas by means of functional MRI. A tinnitus-masking noise will be presented to each study subject, to create an on/off situation of the specific tinnitus-causing brain area during imaging. The MRI results will eventually be validated wit