People with tinnitus are more emotional than ordinary people

According to a recent study, people who often suffer from tinnitus will experience more emotional impact than those who do not suffer from the disease. That makes them more emotional and emotional.

People with tinnitus are the ones who must hear sounds that are not real. Silence often aggravates this situation.

About 90% of people with tinnitus have different hearing levels, and about 50% of people with bad hearing are affected by tinnitus.

Participating in the research experiment, the people selected were those with tinnitus, people with severe disabilities and those with healthy hearing.

People with tinnitus experience more emotional impact than those who do not suffer from the disease

Scanning MRI resonance in the study participants, researchers looked at their brain activity while exposing them to sounds of different frequencies, from less to more, from pleasant, neutral to uncomfortable.

Research results show that, when pleasant and unpleasant sounds are released, the amygdala region - the emotional processing area of ​​the brain in the tinnitus people and the deaf people have little activity. than those with healthy hearing.

While pleasant sounds are emitted, two areas of emotional brain (small lobe in the front and middle temporal lobe) of patients with tinnitus are more active than those of no suffer from this disease.

Fatima Husain, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, said that the problem of sound emotions in people with tinnitus is not only a decisive factor.

The burden of continuous treatment of sounds that are not real causes the amygdala and other parts of the brain to be redistributed. Since then, the amygdala is not continuous. The brain has adjusted in receiving and processing sounds before tinnitus.

Therefore, people with tinnitus will be more emotional than those who do not have the disease.

After the study, about 80% of tinnitus patients overcome their condition and no longer worry. But 20% of the rest found that their condition hindered their lives, often making it difficult to sleep and making them depressed and anxious.

Husain said she hopes this study will help scientists better understand tinnitus. Thereby, they can improve the quality of life for people with this disease.