Multisite rTMS for the treatment of chronic tinnitus: Stimulation of the cortical tinnitus network - A pilot study

Brain Topography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 501-510

  Lehner, Astrid ^a   Schecklmann, Martin ^a   Poeppl, Timm B ^a   Kreuzer, Peter M ^a   Vielsmeier, Veronika ^a   Rupprecht, Rainer ^a   Landgrebe, Michael ^a,b   Langguth, Berthold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Social Foundation Bamberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic tinnitus; Network; Neuromodulation; rTMS; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BIOPHYSICS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84879296587     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0268-4     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Adamchic I, Tass PA, Langguth B, Hauptmann C, Koller M, Schecklmann M, Landgrebe M (2012) Linking the tinnitus questionnaire and the subjective clinical global impression: which differences are clinically important? Health Qual Life Outcomes 10(1):79
2. Adjamian P, Sereda M, Hall DA (2009) The mechanisms of tinnitus: perspectives from human functional neuroimaging. Hear Res 253(1-2):15-31
3. Beck AT, Steer RA (1984) Internal consistencies of the original and revised Beck depression inventory. J Clin Psychol 40(6):1365-1367
4. De Ridder D, Elgoyhen AB, Romo R, Langguth B (2011) Phantom percepts: tinnitus and pain as persisting aversive memory networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(20):8075-8080
5. Dehaene S, Changeux J-P (2004) Neural mechanisms for access to consciousness. In: Gazzaniga M (ed) The cognitive neurosciences III. MIT, Cambridge
6. Eichhammer P, Langguth B, Marienhagen J, Kleinjung T, Hajak G (2003) Neuronavigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with tinnitus: a short case series. Biol Psychiatry 54(8):862-865
7. Frank G, Kleinjung T, Landgrebe M, Vielsmeier V, Steffenhagen C, Burger J, Langguth B (2010) Left temporal low-frequency rTMS for the treatment of tinnitus: clinical predictors of treatment outcome-a retrospective study. Eur J Neurol 17(7):951-956
8. Frank E, Eichhammer P, Burger J, Zowe M, Landgrebe M, Hajak G, Langguth B (2011) Transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of depression: feasibility and results under naturalistic conditions: a retrospective analysis. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 261(4):261-266
9. Goebel G, Hiller W (1994) The tinnitus questionnaire. A standard instrument for grading the degree of tinnitus. Results of a multicenter study with the tinnitus questionnaire. HNO 42(3):166-172
10. Gross M, Nakamura L, Pascual-Leone A, Fregni F (2007) Has repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatment for depression improved? A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the recent versus the earlier rTMS studies. Acta Psychiatr Scand 116(3):165-173
11. Hoekstra CEL, Versnel H, Neggers SFW, Niesten MEF, and Van Zanten GA (2012) Effectiveness of bilateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with chronic tinnitus. Paper presented at the sixth international conference on tinnitus., Bruges, Belgium, p 34
12. Hoffman RE, Cavus I (2002) Slow transcranial magnetic stimulation, long-term depotentiation, and brain hyperexcitability disorders. Am J Psychiatry 159(7):1093-1102
13. Hoffman HJ, Reed GW (2004) Epidemiology of tinnitus. In: Snow JB (ed) Tinnitus: Theory and Management. BC Decker Inc, Lewiston, pp 16-41
14. Hoffman RE, Boutros NN, Hu S, Berman RM, Krystal JH, Charney DS (2000) Transcranial magnetic stimulation and auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. Lancet 355(9209):1073-1075
15. Jasper HH (1958) The ten-twenty electrode system of the international federation. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 10:371-375
16. Khedr EM, Rothwell JC, Ahmed MA, El-Atar A (2008) Effect of daily repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment of tinnitus: comparison of different stimulus frequencies. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 79(2):212-215
17. Khedr EM, Abo-Elfetoh N, Rothwell JC, El-Atar A, Sayed E, Khalifa H (2010) Contralateral versus ipsilateral rTMS of temporoparietal cortex for the treatment of chronic unilateral tinnitus: comparative study. Eur J Neurol 17(7):976-983
18. Kleinjung T, Fischer B, Langguth B, Sand PG, Hajak G, Dvorakova J, Eichhammer P (2007a) Validierung einer deutschsprachigen Version des "Tinnitus Handicap Inventory". Psychiat Prax 34(1):140-142
19. Kleinjung T, Steffens T, Sand P, Murthum T, Hajak G, Strutz J, Eichhammer P (2007b) Which tinnitus patients benefit from transcranial magnetic stimulation? Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 137(4):589-595
20. Kleinjung T, Eichhammer P, Landgrebe M, Sand P, Hajak G, Steffens T, Langguth B (2008) Combined temporal and prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation for tinnitus treatment: a pilot study. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 138(4):497-501
21. Kleinjung T, Steffens T, Landgrebe M, Vielsmeier V, Frank E, Hajak G, Langguth B (2009) Levodopa does not enhance the effect of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in tinnitus treatment. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 140(1):92-95
22. Kleinjung T, Steffens T, Landgrebe M, Vielsmeier V, Frank E, Burger J, Langguth B (2011) Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for tinnitus treatment: no enhancement by the dopamine and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor bupropion. Brain Stimul 4(2):65-70
23. Kreuzer PM, Landgrebe M, Schecklmann M, Poeppl TB, Vielsmeier V, Hajak G, Langguth B (2011) Can temporal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation be enhanced by targeting affective components of tinnitus with frontal rTMS? A randomized controlled pilot trial. Front Syst Neurosci 5:88
24. Landgrebe M, Zeman F, Koller M, Eberl Y, Mohr M, Reiter J, Langguth B (2010) The tinnitus research initiative (TRI) database: a new approach for delineation of tinnitus subtypes and generation of predictors for treatment outcome. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 10:42
25. Langguth B (2011) A review of tinnitus symptoms beyond 'ringing in the ears': a call to action. Curr Med Res Opin 27(8):1635-1643
26. Langguth B, Zowe M, Landgrebe M, Sand P, Kleinjung T, Binder H, Eichhammer P (2006) Transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of tinnitus: a new coil positioning method and first results. Brain Topogr 18(4):241-247
27. Langguth B, Goodey R, Azevedo A, Bjorne A, Cacace A, Crocetti A, Vergara R (2007) Consensus for tinnitus patient assessment and treatment outcome measurement: tinnitus research initiative meeting, Regensburg, July 2006. Prog Brain Res 166:525-536
28. Lanting CP, de Kleine E, van Dijk P (2009) Neural activity underlying tinnitus generation: results from PET and fMRI. Hear Res 255(1-2):1-13
29. Lehner A, Schecklmann M, Landgrebe M, Kreuzer PM, Poeppl TB, Frank E, Langguth B (2012) Predictors for rTMS response in chronic tinnitus. Front Syst Neurosci 6:11
30. Newman CW, Jacobson GP, Spitzer JB (1996) Development of the tinnitus handicap inventory. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 122(2):143-148
31. Plewnia C (2011) Brain stimulation: new vistas for the exploration and treatment of tinnitus. CNS Neurosci Ther 17(5):449-461
32. Plewnia C, Reimold M, Najib A, Brehm B, Reischl G, Plontke SK, Gerloff C (2007) Dose-dependent attenuation of auditory phantom perception (tinnitus) by PET-guided repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Hum Brain Mapp 28(3):238-246
33. Plewnia C, Vonthein R, Wasserka B, Arfeller C, Naumann A, Schraven SP, Plontke SK (2012) Treatment of chronic tinnitus with theta burst stimulation: a randomized controlled trial. Neurology 78(21):1628-1634
34. Roberts LE, Eggermont JJ, Caspary DM, Shore SE, Melcher JR, Kaltenbach JA (2010) Ringing ears: the neuroscience of tinnitus. J Neurosci 30(45):14972-14979
35. Rossi S, De Capua A, Ulivelli M, Bartalini S, Falzarano V, Filippone G, Passero S (2007) Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on chronic tinnitus: a randomised, crossover, double blind, placebo controlled study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 78(8):857-863
36. Schlee W, Hartmann T, Langguth B, Weisz N (2009a) Abnormal resting-state cortical coupling in chronic tinnitus. BMC Neurosci 10:11
37. Schlee W, Mueller N, Hartmann T, Keil J, Lorenz I, Weisz N (2009b) Mapping cortical hubs in tinnitus. BMC Biol 7:80
38. Schlee W, Lorenz I, Hartmann T, Müller N, Schulz H, Weisz N (2011) A global brain model of tinnitus. In: Moller AR (ed) Textbook of tinnitus. Springer, New York, pp 161-169
39. Speer AM, Kimbrell TA, Wassermann EM, Repella JD, Willis MW, Herscovitch P, Post RM (2000) Opposite effects of high and low frequency rTMS on regional brain activity in depressed patients. Biol Psychiatry 48(12):1133-1141
40. Tracy DK, O'Daly O, Joyce DW, Michalopoulou PG, Basit BB, Dhillon G, Shergill SS (2010) An evoked auditory response fMRI study of the effects of rTMS on putative AVH pathways in healthy volunteers. Neuropsychologia 48(1):270-277
41. van der Loo E, Gais S, Congedo M, Vanneste S, Plazier M, Menovsky T, De Ridder D (2009) Tinnitus intensity dependent gamma oscillations of the contralateral auditory cortex. PLoS ONE 4(10):e7396
42. Weisz N, Moratti S, Meinzer M, Dohrmann K, Elbert T (2005) Tinnitus perception and distress is related to abnormal spontaneous brain activity as measured by magnetoencephalography. PLoS Med 2(6):e153
43. Weisz N, Dohrmann K, Elbert T (2007) The relevance of spontaneous activity for the coding of the tinnitus sensation. Prog Brain Res 166:61-70