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Kara C. Schvartz-Leyzac

Kresge Hearing Research Institute

Auditory-somatosensory stimulation trials for tinnitus.

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Papers (2)

Reversing Synchronized Brain Circuits Using Targeted Auditory-Somatosensory Stimulation to Treat Phantom Percepts: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA network open · 2023

Randomized clinical trial: bimodal auditory-somatosensory stimulation significantly reduced tinnitus loudness and severity.

Randomized controlled trial (human)
Human

Auditory-somatosensory bimodal stimulation desynchronizes brain circuitry to reduce tinnitus in guinea pigs and humans.

Science translational medicine · 2018

Foundational study: LTD-inducing bimodal stimulation desynchronizes DCN fusiform cells and reduced tinnitus in guinea pigs and a first-in-human trial.

Human study (non-randomized / first-in-human)
Guinea pig & Human