Research Article

Altered Interhemispheric Functional Coordination in Chronic Tinnitus Patients

Table 1

Characteristics of the tinnitus patients and healthy controls.

Tinnitus patientsHealthy controls value
( = 28)( = 30)

Age (year)40.5 ± 13.246.2 ± 11.90.090
Gender (male : female)16 : 1215 : 150.586
Education levels (years)10.8 ± 1.611.1 ± 1.70.545
Tinnitus duration (months)34.3 ± 34.2
THQ total score41.3 ± 18.2
 Factor 145.0 ± 22.2
 Social subscale11.5 ± 6.2
 Emotional subscale17.0 ± 10.6
 Physical subscale16.5 ± 8.0
 Factor 228.1 ± 26.0
 Factor 354.1 ± 17.0

Data are represented as mean ± SD.