Tinnitus Research: Improvement and Innovation

Abstract

Until relatively recently it would have been justified to be critical of the standard of research into tinnitus. The sparse published literature was typified by studies with poor experimental design, low participant numbers, and research teams all from the same discipline. This situation has now undergone a transformation, with multidisciplinary research teams utilising modern neuroscience tools, in well designed and well powered studies. Clinical and neuroscientific perspectives are being brought to bear on tinnitus, and to place it within modern knowledge frameworks from imaging, auditory neuroscience, pharmacology, psychology, and medicine. This special issue of Trends in Hearing, entitled Innovations in Tinnitus Research, reflects the depth and breadth of the tinnitus field as it currently stands. The inception of the idea for the Special Issue was associated with the Tinnitus Research Initiative conference at the University of Regensburg, Germany in Spring 2018. This conference coincided with the closing conference of TINNET, a consortium of Europea

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