Human Auditory and Adjacent Nonauditory Cerebral Cortices Are Hypermetabolic in Tinnitus as Measured by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)

<div>Schematic of block auditory testing paradigm. Participants passively listened to randomly selected pure tones (750 Hz or 8000 Hz) or broadband noise (BBN) for 18 sec each, immediately followed or preceded by an interstimulus rest period (ISR) consisting of silence/absence of auditory stimulation for 18 sec for a total experiment run time of 20 minutes. Each randomized paradigm was repeated 9 times to prevent potential confounding effects and to optimize average responses under each recording condition.</div>

Neural Plasticity

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Figure 2: Human Auditory and Adjacent Nonauditory Cerebral Cortices Are Hypermetabolic in Tinnitus as Measured by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) 

Figure 2 | Human Auditory and Adjacent Nonauditory Cerebral Cortices Are Hypermetabolic in Tinnitus as Measured by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) 