Dear friends and colleagues,

we are very happy and thankful for the fruitful year with TINNET. Together, we have accomplished a lot of good things!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to the new year 2016 with you.

On October 16, 2015, the Neuroimaging Working Group (WG 3) met in Poznan, Polen. The group worked on standard guidelines for the data acquisition using EEG/MEG and fMRI in tinnitus patients. Furthermore, it was discussed about a questionnaire for the assessment of mindwandering during the resting state recordings.

The guidelines and questionnaire will be published on this website.

 Deadline for Abstract Submission
ended on December 13th.
Registration is still possible at
http://tri2016.ihr.mrc.ac.uk/

The next meeting of the Neuroimaging Working Group (WG 3) will take place Friday 16 October 2015 in Poznań, at the Faculty of Physics at the Adam Mickiewicz University (address: ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań).

During his Short-term scientific mission, Dr. Jaime Serquera, developped a first prototype for a tinnitus pitch matching procedure under Matlab using a forced-choice double-staircase adaptive procedure. 

The code is freely available under: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/53129-fcds

Trying to find a balance between user-friendliness and scientific accuracy, there are only a few buttons in the GUI. The remaining paramters can be changed in the code. 

Any feedback that will improve further versions of the software are welcome. Please send it to Dr. Serquera (jserquera "at" yahoo.es).

On September 25, 2015, the second meeting of the Database Workgroup took place in  Cologne. The group of tinnitus experts, database experts and statisticians came together at the HSD University of Applied Sciences (http://www.hs-doepfer.de).

Another TINNET supported article: "Current reported outcome domains in studies of adults with a focus on the treatment of tinnitus: protocol for a systematic review" has been accepted for publication. The article will soon be available in the British Medical Journal - Open.

Here’s a photo of all four co-authors (from left to right Veronica Kennedy, Deb Hall, Haula Haider and Agnieszka Szczepek) taken at the recent WG5 management meeting.

Article: THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

"Science-based tinnitus therapeutics are finally coming into their own."