Exploring the Links Between Hearing, Cognition and Brain Activity in People With Tinnitus
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Quality of Life questionnaires, Hearing tests, Auditory prediction task, Attention task.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Tinnitus. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Exploration Des Liens Entre Audition, Cognition et activité cérébrale Chez Des Personnes présentant un acouphène
Overview
The goal of this observational study is to understand the mechanisms underlying tinnitus, and improve the clinical assessment strategies needed to develop targeted therapeutic interventions by comparing endogenous attention capacities in healthy subjects and subjects with tinnitus
Interventions
- Other Quality of Life questionnaires
Subjects will complete a number of self-questionnaires on subjects such as attention span, anxiety levels and sleep quality. - Other Hearing tests
listening to sounds on headphones and repeating words - Behavioral Auditory prediction task
listening to sounds and assessing auditory perception - Behavioral Attention task
assessment of reaction time to visual or auditory cues
Primary outcome measures
- Contingent negative variation (CNV) in EEG [Time frame: 2 hours]
Secondary outcome measures (6)
- Response reaction time (in ms) [Time frame: 2 hours]
- Answer accuracy (% correct answers) [Time frame: 2 hours]
- Cerebral oscillations (alpha bands) obtained by EEG during behavioural tasks [Time frame: 2 hours]
- Skin conductance (μS) [Time frame: 2 hours]
- Heart rate variability (in ms) [Time frame: 2 hours]
- Pupillometry (pupillary dilation in mm) [Time frame: 2 hours]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Good written and oral comprehension of the French language
- Normal or corrected vision
Group of people with tinnitus :
\- Chronic tinnitus > 3 months, uni or bilateral, stable (no period of remission)
Control group :
\- No tinnitus
Exclusion criteria
- Presence of a known neurological disorder
- Presence of a known degenerative pathology
- Presence of a known hearing impairment
- Presence of a motor disability of the upper limbs
- Severe or profound deafness on one or both sides
- Person under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, etc.)
- Use of hearing aids
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Non-randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Basic science
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06940726 · 2024-159 · 2025-A00267-42