Selective attentional impairment in chronic tinnitus: Evidence from an event-related potentials study.

CONCLUSION: These results point to a general slowing in early stimulus perception in tinnitus subjects. Moreover, a specific difficulty emerged in attentional switching to unexpected events during an orienting response, probably owing to a dysfunction in the ventral attention network.
SIGNIFICANCE: Psychophysiological approach reveals selective attentional impairment and could provide useful data for rehabilitative strategies in chronic tinnitus.
PMID: 28160746 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - January 15, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Mannarelli D, Pauletti C, Mancini P, Fioretti A, Greco A, De Vincentiis M, Fattapposta F Tags: Clin Neurophysiol Source Type: research