April 2014 Archive
Browse all posts from April 2014.
Meditating with Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 29, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: meditating with tinnitus tinnitus and meditation
Below is an excerpt from a great article written by a tinnitus sufferer on how to meditate with tinnitus. As a tinnitus sufferer herself, the author can speak to the difficult daily reality of a person suffering from tinnitus. I think this another example of why the internet is such a powerful advocacy tool for people...
America Music for Tinnits 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 24, 2014
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: 2014 America music for tinnits 2014 music for tinnitus tinnitus music
The majority of our customers right now are from the United States, although as we continue to translate our site into other languages, this is changing. Lots of Americans search for music for tinnitus with the tagline "America Music for Tinnits 2014,*" and we're able to point them towards Notched Music Therapy as an...
Tinnitus Research Initiative
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 22, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus research initiative
The Tinnitus Research Initiative is a global research effort that brings together multidisciplinary expertise into the field of tinnitus research. One of the challenges about tinnitus is that understanding it seems to require a combination of "bottom-up" cellular biology and "top-down" neural circuitry. Combined these...
Vagal Nerve Therapy Trial Recruiting Patients
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 17, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: clinical trial vagal nerve therapy
An American clinical trial is being launched for Vagal Nerve Therapy for tinnitus. This is pretty exciting news (although the research thus far is limited). A summary below: The new study uses a technique known as vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) that takes advantage of the brain’s ability to reconfigure itself...
New AM-101 Drug for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 15, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: AM-101 tinnitus new tinnitus drug Tinnitus
One of the challenging things for patients who acutely develop tinnitus is the absence of therapeutic interventions available in the acute phase (i.e. shortly after a person develops tinnitus in a rapid fashion). Current theory surrounding the pathophysiology of tinnitus is that there is a "therapeutic window" in the...
A Twentysomething Millenial With Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 10, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: tinnitus stories young people with tinnitus
As a young person who developed tinnitus at 23, I had few people who could relate to my condition. That's why I'm so glad that people are willing to share their stories of illness. I really enjoyed the following story on XoJane: My life as I knew it ended with a slosh. Way back in 2003, when I was a junior in college,...
Sound Therapy Music
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 3, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: Notched Music notched sound therapy Sound Therapy Music
Is there such a thing as Sound Therapy Music for tinnitus? The term can be used interchangeably with "Notched Music," "Notched Music Therapy," and other terms. Originally discovered by Christo Pantev's German lab, other experiments have shown efficacy with Notching other sounds as well, such as white noise. To read...