单位:[1]Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China医技科室影像中心放射科首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院[2]Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China临床科室耳鼻咽喉头颈外科耳鼻咽喉头颈外科首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院
Sound therapy is one of the most common first-line treatments for idiopathic tinnitus. We aimed to investigate the brain structural and functional alterations between patients with idiopathic tinnitus without hearing loss (HL) and healthy controls (HCs) and between patients before and after sound therapy (narrow band noise). Structural and resting-state functional images were acquired from 13 tinnitus patients without HL and 18 HCs before and after 6 months of narrow band sound therapy (only patients received the treatment). Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and independent component analysis (ICA) were conducted to separately investigate the brain structural and functional changes. Associations between brain changes and clinical variables were also performed. After the treatment, the % improvement of THI score was -1.30% (+/- 63.40%). Compared with HCs, tinnitus patients showed gray matter and white matter atrophy in the left middle temporal gyrus at baseline, and the gray matter volume was further reduced after the treatment. The patients also showed increased white matter volume in the cingulum (cingulate), right calcarine, left rolandic operculum, and left parietal and frontal lobes. Additionally, compared with HCs, tinnitus patients exhibited positive [medial visual network (mVN) and sensorimotor network (SMN), mVN and auditory network (AN)] and negative [mVN and lateral visual network (lVN)] internetwork functional connectivity (FC) at baseline and negative [left frontoparietal network (LFPN) and dorsal attention network (DAN), AN and posterior default mode network (pDMN)] internetwork FC after the narrow band sound therapy. The patients also showed negative [LFPN and right frontoparietal network (RFPN), LFPN and RFPN, anterior default mode network (aDMN) and AN, aDMN and DAN] internetwork FC after the treatment when compared with baseline. Our findings suggest that although the outcomes of idiopathic tinnitus patients without HL were not very good when the improvement of THI scores was used as an evaluation indicator, the patients experienced significant differences in auditory-related and non-auditory-related brain reorganization before and after the narrow band sound therapy, that is, sound therapy may have a significant effect on brain reorganization in patients with idiopathic tinnitus. This study may provide some new useful information for the understanding of mechanisms underlying idiopathic tinnitus.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61801311, 61931013]; Beijing Scholars Program [(2015) 160]; Beijing Natural Science FoundationBeijing Natural Science Foundation [7182044]; Beijing Hospitals Authority [PX2018001]; Beijing Hospitals Authority Youth Programme [QML20180103]; Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University [YYZZ2017B01]; China Postdoctoral Science FoundationChina Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M660717]; Beijing Postdoctoral Research FoundationChina Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020-Z2-023]
第一作者单位:[1]Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Chen Qian,Lv Han,Wang Zhaodi,et al.Brain Structural and Functional Reorganization in Tinnitus Patients Without Hearing Loss After Sound Therapy: A Preliminary Longitudinal Study[J].FRONTIERS in NEUROSCIENCE.2021,15:doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.573858.
APA:
Chen, Qian,Lv, Han,Wang, Zhaodi,Wei, Xuan,Zhao, Pengfei...&Wang, Zhenchang.(2021).Brain Structural and Functional Reorganization in Tinnitus Patients Without Hearing Loss After Sound Therapy: A Preliminary Longitudinal Study.FRONTIERS in NEUROSCIENCE,15,
MLA:
Chen, Qian,et al."Brain Structural and Functional Reorganization in Tinnitus Patients Without Hearing Loss After Sound Therapy: A Preliminary Longitudinal Study".FRONTIERS in NEUROSCIENCE 15.(2021)