Modulating Mechanisms in Patients With Chronic Subjective Tinnitus and/or Chronic Pain

Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic subjective tinnitus patients without chronic pain: * Aged between 18-65 years * Chronic subjective tinnitus (\> 3 months during most of the days (4 or more)and for more than 5 minutes/day) * Speaking and understanding Dutch fluently * Chronic subjective tinnitus patients with chronic pain: * Aged between 18-65 years * Chronic subjective tinnitus (\> 3 months during most of the days (4 or more)and for more than 5 minutes/day) * Speaking and understanding Dutch fluently * Persistent musculoskeletal pain lasting more than 3 months * Mean pain intensity of more than 3 of 10 on a numeric pain rating scale during the preceding month (the cutoff for clinically relevant pain) * Chronic ideopathic neck pain: * Aged between 18-65 years * Persistent neck pain lasting more than 3 months * Mean pain intensity of more than 3 of 10 on a numeric pain rating scale during the preceding month (the cutoff for clinically relevant pain) * Healthy controls: * Aged between 18-65 years Exclusion Criteria: * Chronic subjective tinnitus with/without chronic pain: * Objective tinnitus * Subjective tinnitus caused by clear causes such as tumor, trauma, vascular dysfunction, neurological disorder, pulsatile tinnitus * Vertigo (Menière's disease, BPPV,…) * Deafness * Progressive middle ear pathology * Intracranial pathologies * Subjects with prior otologic surgery (for example stapedotomy), active outer or middle ear pathology * History of head, neck or shoulder trauma or surgery (\< 5 years, or remaining complaints) * A history of whiplash trauma * Major depression or psychiatric illness (diagnosed by a psychiatrist and being in medicamental or psychiatric treatment) * Life threatening, metabolic, cardiovascular, neurologic, systemic diseases * Diagnosis of fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome * Pregnancy or given birth in the preceding year * Dyslexia, dyscalculia, AD(H)D, language/communication disorder * Chronic subjective tinnitus without chronic pain (additional exclusion criteria): * No history of chronic pain * No pain condition in the last 6 months for which treatment was sought * No pain in any region \> 2/10 on the testing day * Chronic ideopathic neck pain: * Ever experienced whiplash trauma or other form of trauma to the head, neck, or upper quadrant * Specific causes of neck pain, such as cervical hernias with clinical symptoms * Major depression or psychiatric illness (diagnosed by a psychiatrist and being in medicamental or psychiatric trea…