Noninvasive Bimodal Neuromodulation for the Treatment of Tinnitus: Protocol for a Second Large-Scale Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial to Optimize Stimulation Parameters

Brendan Conlon   ^{1, 2, 3} , FRCSI ;   Caroline Hamilton   ² , BSc, MSc ;   Stephen Hughes   ² , BSc ;   Emma Meade   ² , BA, MSc ;   Deborah A Hall   ^{4, 5, 6} , BSc, PhD ;   Sven Vanneste   ^{3, 7} , PhD ;   Berthold Langguth   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Hubert H Lim   ^{2, 9} , MSE, PhD

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, St James Hospital Dublin and Tallaght University Hospital Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

² Neuromod Devices Limited, Dublin, Ireland

³ Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

⁴ Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

⁵ National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

⁶ University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

⁷ University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States

⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

⁹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States