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[Focus on the effects of psychological problems and sleep disorders on tinnitus]
1ENT Institute and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University/Shanghai Auditory Medical Center/NHC Key Laboratory of Hearing Medicine (Fudan University), Shanghai 200031, China.
Abstract:
The effects of tinnitus on human health are receiving increasing attention, and it is currently believed that the central compensatory response caused by peripheral hearing loss is the main pathogenesis of chronic tinnitus. Tinnitus, psychological problems and sleep disorders affect and worsen each other, and should be taken seriously in treatment strategies. Chronic tinnitus treatment strategy advocates comprehensive treatment based on sound therapy, including reducing tinnitus sound perception and improving patients' negative mood and poor sleep. Whether treating tinnitus alone or treating relevant psychological problems and sleep disorders can break the vicious circle of tinnitus, psychological problems and sleep disorders. Therefore, balancing both psychological and sleep problems, is the direction of tinnitus treatment and research. The clinical study of the treatment of tinnitus should shift from the previous single tinnitus treatment mode and a single tinnitus evaluation index to the comprehensive treatment and comprehensive evaluation indicators that balance both psychotherapy and sleep improvement.
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