Identifying Subgroups of Tinnitus Using Novel Resting State fMRI Biomarkers and Cluster Analysis
Abstract
The subject of the project is FY14 PRMRP Topic Area Tinnitus. The broad goal is to link behavioral measures of tinnitus severity to brain imaging scans that target areas of auditory, attention, and emotion processing, which are important to the underlying neural mechanisms of tinnitus. This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and is taking place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for civilian data collection (patient and control) and at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center (WHASC) for military data collection (patient and control). Identical audio logical, behavioral, and brain imaging protocols are being used at both sites and include patients with a range of tinnitus severity. In Year 2, we had ongoing data collection using resting-state fMRI to identify characteristics of functional connectivity in attention, emotion, and auditory processing networks that are exclusive to the tinnitus population. We also used clustering algorithms applied to the resting-state data to differentiate patients with tinnitus from controls. We presented results in military and other conferences. In Year 3, we expect to complete data collection and analysis and submit manuscripts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 13, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1048527
Entities
People
- Fatima T Husain
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign