Cognitive Speed as an Objective Measure of Tinnitus (COMeT)

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Tinnitus Talk submitted a new resource:

Cognitive Speed as an Objective Measure of Tinnitus (COMeT) (version 1.0) - To investigate the relationship that self-reported tinnitus severity has with cognitive processing.

Tinnitus, commonly referred to as "ringing in the ears", affects 50 million people in the United States and is recognized as a major public health concern. Tinnitus is the most frequent cause of service-connected disability claims among war veterans. Tinnitus remains a subjectively diagnosed entity. There is no standardized objective method of diagnosing tinnitus or describing the functional impact of the condition. Currently, physicians have to rely on patient-based self reports. Without an...

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[Frédéric]

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01395368
Status: completed. Study completion date: October 2011.

Results:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01395368?sect=X4370156#othr

I don't know what to think about this clinical trial since there was no control group (healthy volunteers).

 

[Frédéric]

I also found this article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500665/