Biomarkers identified by EEG studies for the objective description of tinnitus, a review of the state of the art
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https://doi.org/10.32870/recibe.v11i1.240Keywords:
Tinnitus, Biomarkers, EEGAbstract
Tinnitus is a condition described as the perception of a sound, similar to that emitted by a bell, buzzing or whistling, in the absence of an acoustic source that generates it. The main methods used to evaluate this condition are questionnaires, visual analogue scales or pure tone audiometry tests; however, these are not completely reliable because the results depend on what is expressed by patients with this condition. The objective of this work is to review different sources of information in the search for works that report the identification of biomarkers, in other words an objective measurement based on electroencephalography (EEG) data in the study of tinnitus. Based on what was found, it was observed that there are a variety of works that report, through different methodologies, one or several features associated with the tinnitus; however, an aspect identified was that the pertinent evaluations have not been made to determine if a feature can be considered a biomarker, which can objectively, precisely and reproducibly describe the tinnitus condition, which is important to consider for the proposal and development of future works.References
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