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"It is actually the very same part of the brain in this right auditory brain region that we found in dogs and also humans in an earlier study that responds to the emotional content of a sound," said Andics.
The pain in the depth of the right auditory canal did not appear during every episode but only when the occipital pain was severe.
Pre/post outcome measures for sham vs. active rTMS conditions included differential changes in tinnitus loudness, self-perceived changes in the Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire (THQ), and neurochemical changes of brain metabolite concentrations using single voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) obtained from left and right auditory cortical areas.
A tungsten electrode with tip impedance of ∼2 MΩ was perpendicularly inserted into the right auditory cortex.
This specialization of the right auditory cortex could account for the stronger response to modulated than unmodulated sounds.
Modulation of the sensory N100 has indeed been obtained with external cues in the blind (sound presented in the left or right auditory space [7]).
Conversely, LHON patients had a higher number of clusters in the right auditory cortex compared to controls (4 clusters in patients vs. 2 clusters in controls) (Figure 3).
The DT MRI connectivity-based parcellation identified a higher number of clusters in the right auditory cortex in LHON vs. controls.
However, the number of seed points was significantly different between the left and the right auditory cortices, due to their different representation in the SPM Anatomical Toolbox [25].
We modeled the averaged MEG data with single dipoles in left and right auditory cortices and calculated the waveforms of cortical source strength [52].
