Neuro-Music-Therapy for Patients With Chronic Tinnitus - a Controlled Clinical Trial

"The neuro-music therapy according to the Heidelberg Model for tinnitus is a manualized short term music therapeutic treatment lasting for nine consecutive 50-minutes sessions of individualized therapy. Therapy takes place on five consecutive days (from Monday to Friday) with two therapy sessions per day. It comprises both active and receptive forms of music therapy. The interventions are structured into the following modules Directive Counseling, Resonance Training, Neuroauditive Cortex Training, Tinnitus Reconditioning.~For more details on the music therapy see Argstatter et al. 2012"

Duration: single session of 50 min Tinnitus specific procedures: The counseling group receives the identical counselling procedure as the music therapy group.