transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in the treatment of chronic tinnitus – results of a pilot study

Introduction: Chronic tinnitus is associated with an increased neuronal activity of central auditory pathways. For conscious perception you need additional co-activation of frontal and parietal areas (Boly et al. 2004). Correspondingly magnetencephalographic analyses show, that patients with chronic tinnitus present spacious alterations of neuronal networks (Schlee et al. 2008, Schlee et al. 2009). These areas could represent additional targets for a neuromodulatory therapy (Kleinjung et al. 2008). Here we examined the clinical effect of a modulation frontal areas with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tD…