Unification of Treatments and Interventions for Tinnitus Patients - UNITI

During the Science Night Regensburg on Oct 21, entitled Nacht.Schafft.Wissen, interested citizens could inform themselves about current research projects and new technologies from numerous companies and institutions in Regensburg. On an „analog course through digital worlds“ the working groups Neuromodulation and eHealth of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University of Regensburg at the district hospital also presented two app projects funded within the framework of UNITI.

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Christopher R. Cederroth, partner in the UNITI project, has become the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO). Dr. Cederroth was former Associate Editor in the successful Frontiers Research Topic coordinated along with Winfried Schlee.

Christopher on his new role as editor-in-chief:

"I am currently expanding the board of Associate Editors to better reflect the broad scope of research presented at ARO’s annual meeting, but also to better represent tinnitus research. This is why I am also expanding the scope to include clinical trials and other large studies and improve the visibility of the research performed in the field.

JARO has been created 20 years ago and aims to publish experimental research in hearing and balance, in animals and humans, but also treatment of disorders, rehabilitation with hearing aids and cochlear implants, genetics, epidemiology, anatomy and physiology, psychoacoustics, among others.

• I am delighted to be part of this adventure! With the success we had with Frontiers, there is a great likelihood of increasing the impact of JARO and raise it back to the first Quartile of the best journals in Audiology."

JARO is a Springer journal, and many countries benefit from open access agreements.

For more information, check JARO’s website

We are happy to announce that we have a new paper published in Journal of Clinical Medicine: "Standardized Clinical Profiling in Spanish Patients with Chronic Tinnitus".The aim of this study as to compare the online and hospital responses to the Spanish version of European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research screening-questionnaire (ESIT-SQ) in tinnitus individuals by an unsupervised age clustering. 

Online survey showed a high proportion of Meniere's disease (MD) patients compared to both the general population and the outpatient cohort. The responses showed statistically significant differences between groups regarding education level, tinnitus-related hearing disorders (MD, hyperacusis), sleep difficulties, dyslipidemia, and other tinnitus characteristics, including duration, type of onset, the report of mitigating factors and the use of treatments. However, these differences were partially confirmed after adjusting for age. The full paper can be accessed here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35207250/. 

We are happy to announce that we have a new paper published in Clinical and Translational Medicine: "Defective α-tectorin may involve tectorial membrane in familial Meniere disease". Although there have been considerable advances in recent years, the contribution of genetic factors to Meniere's disease (MD) is not yet fully understood.The results of the present study add new evidence to support the involvement of α-tectorin in the pathophysiology of MD. We report four multicase MD families carrying rare missense heterozygous variants (F1–F3) and a short deletion (F4) in the coding region of the TECTA gene. Variants in this gene were also found in two additional families with one MD patient and relatives with partial syndromes carrying a missense heterozygous variant (F5) and a short deletion (F6). More information can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9162437/ 

After 893 calendar days and 9 UNITI TVs, the UNITI consortium finally met again on the 28^th and 29^th of June in beautiful Herrsching on lake Ammersee in Bavaria, Germany. We are excited about the progress of work in several aspects. During both days fruitful discussions and excellent research presentations took place about UNITI RCTs, UNITI datasets and data analysis, tinnitus socio-economic study, UNITI CDSS, Genetics and many more.