Victoria L. Kowalkowski

TL;DR: To evaluate the existing level of evidence for tinnitus management strategies identified in the UK Department of Health's Good Practice Guideline, a meta-analysis was conducted.

TL;DR: The data suggest that measuring NOS in the VCN and recording ABRs supplement behavioural methods for confirming tinnitus in animals, and that nitric oxide is involved in plastic neural changes associated with tinnitis.

TL;DR: The overall findings and conclusions cast doubt on the superiority of a purely acoustic mechanism to underpin tinnitus remediation and are more suggestive that auditory perceptual training affects impact on a contributory mechanism such as selective attention or emotional state.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated FDT exploiting intrinsic motivations by integrating training with computer-game play and found that participants reported greater intrinsic motivation to train on the interactive game-based platforms, yet compliance of all three groups was similar (,70%) and changes in self-reported tinnitus severity were not significant.

TL;DR: Examination of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in the guinea pig VCN following acoustic trauma foundVariability in NOS expression between animals may represent one underlying difference that can be linked to whether or not tinnitus develops after noise exposure.