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5 - 15 % of people suffer from chronic ringing in the ears (tinnitus).
About one third of all adults will experience tinnitus once in their lifetime.
In the vast majority of cases, no objective cause can be identified as the trigger for the tinnitus. Therefore, one usually also speaks of a subjective tinnitus.
Our credo is to understand the phenomenon of tinnitus and its neurological background in a scientific, evidence-based and transparent way. With the support of neuropsychological and imaging methods, innovative technologies, as well as national and international cooperations, we are constantly increasing knowledge and improving the treatment options for chronic, subjective tinnitus.
This website summarises research projects and technologies for the detection and treatment of tinnitus in Zurich. Furthermore, you can learn more about the involved institutions, cooperations, partners and sponsors.
Chronic subjective tinnitus originates and becomes chronic in the brain.
This is the view that research has come to in the last decade based on a large number of neuroscientific and -psychological studies. A number of neuronal networks in the brain play a role in the generation and chronification of the ringing in the ears. These networks have maladapted after a lesion of hair cells in the inner ear and an associated transient sensory deafferentation.
As a result of these maladaptive processes, reorganisation processes manifest themselves, which, supported by emotional impressions, aversive evaluation and attentional processes, intensify the subjective tinnitus.
Interdisciplinary research is currently working to better understand the development and linkage of these networks and to investigate the considerable heterogeneity in pathology as well as the variance in symptomatology in people affected with tinnitus.
The primary purpose of this site is to provide transparent information about the latest research and therapeutic methods in the field of tinnitus and their underlying mechanisms. Furthermore, it is our concern to present responsible persons, institutions and both national and international cooperations.
The research core in Zurich consists of a cooperation between the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich, the University Hospital Zurich, and the Linguistic Research Infrastructure.
