Influence of Tonic and Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Characteristics on Acute Inhibition of Subjective Tinnitus

Antwerp University Hospital (UZA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tinnitus

Treatments: Procedure: TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00878696

ITBTMS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is already broadly used in different areas of neuroscience research. Last year, special attention was drawn to TMS in tinnitus. The aim of the researchers' study is to investigate the stimulation characteristics of TMS in tinnitus patients, in particularly the effect of tonic and burst stimulation of the superior temporal lobe.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 78 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients presented to our Multidisciplinary Tinnitus Clinic with tinnitus as a main complaint.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with known history of epilepsy, pacemakers, cochlear implants, neurostimulators or intracerebral pathology were excluded from the study.

Trial design

64 participants in 1 patient group

Tinnitus

Description:

Tinnitus patients

Treatment:

Procedure: TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation