Category: Tinnitus Research
Anything on recent research into tinnitus.
102 posts in this category
The Definitive Guide To Detecting Your Tinnitus Frequency
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 1, 2019
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: AudioNotch tinnitus frequency matching tinnitus tuning
Detecting your tinnitus frequency isn't easy. Data shows that about fifty percent of users will be able to consistently and reliably identify a tinnitus frequency that matches their own. This process is called "pitch-masking," "frequency-matching," or "tinnitus tuning" (all of these terms are interchangeable). The...
Gene Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by Adrian on November 19, 2018
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus Treatment
Tags: 2019 news on tinnitus tinnitus cure tinnitus news
You may be familiar with notched tinnitus sound therapy like what AudioNotch offers. However this may not work as a cure for everyone. Gene therapy is being used to develop a treatment and potential cure for hearing loss, and possibly tinnitus. The most promising company is Frequency Therapeutics who have a drug that...
Tinnitus and Ketamine
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 30, 2018
Categories: DoctorTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus Treatment
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and depression tinnitus cure tinnitus treatment
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. With one in five Americans suffering from chronic ringing in the ears, better known as tinnitus, there's no doubt this is a...
Tinnitus Link Roundup
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 25, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus research
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Here's some interesting links about tinnitus and tinnitus-related news: Resident Advisor, a web site for DJ's, has written a...
When Should You see a Hearing Specialist?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 23, 2017
Categories: AudioNotchDoctorHearingSpecialistTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus Treatment
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. The question that everybody with tinitus is asking, Temporary Tinnitus or Serious Damage: When Should I see the Specialist?...
Treatment For Ringing In Ears
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 23, 2017
Categories: AnnouncementHearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus TreatmentTreatment Review
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. A sense of a “ringing” sound in the ears is referred to as Tinnitus. Tinnitus isn’t really an illness in and of itself. The...
Treatment For Ringing In Ears
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 16, 2017
Categories: AudioNotchTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus TreatmentWhite NoiseWhite Noise Machine
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For tinnitus sufferers, the constant ringing in the ears can be life-altering. Buzzing, hissing, and other sounds that only...
White Noise Machine Tinnitus - What It Is and How Does It Help
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 13, 2017
Categories: AudioNotchHearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus TreatmentWhite NoiseWhite Noise Machine
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For people who suffer from tinnitus, each day can be difficult to say the least. While most people can carry on normal lives,...
Ginkgo Biloba Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 13, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Ginkgo Biloba Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For those who suffer from the devastating effects of tinnitus, they are always on the lookout for a new type of treatment...
Evidence for Notched Sound Therapy: Does it Actually Lower Tinnitus Volume?
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 9, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: notched sound therapy Tailor-Made Notched Music Therapy Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy tinnitus treatment
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Here's a summary of experimental research that has demonstrated a reduction in tinnitus volume with Notched Sound Therapy:...
New Research on Notched Sound Therapy
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 6, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: notched sound therapy Tailor-Made Notched Music Therapy tinnitus treatment
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Notched Sound Therapy is an ongoing area of clinical research. With scientists examining its therapeutic potential in...
Amazing Tinnitus TED Talk: "Help is on the way"
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 17, 2017
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Josef Rauschecker
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. I'd encourage all of you to watch this wonderful lecture from Josef Rauschecker, a tinnitus researcher with decades of...
Unilateral Tinnitus Without Hearing Loss
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 28, 2017
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Unilateral Tinnitus Without Hearing Loss
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Different disorders are associated with tinnitus. However, it is not unique to have unilateral tinnitus without hearing loss....
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 23, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus retraining therapy
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Studies suggest that approximately 20 percent of people in the United States have experienced or live with chronic tinnitus....
Tinnitus 2017
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 21, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus 2017
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Groups of researchers from the University of Buffalo, Southeast University in China and the Dalhousie University in Canada...
Schumann Frequenzgenerator
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 14, 2017
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Schumann Frequenzgenerator
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. The Schumann resonator, which is also called the Schumann Frequenzgenerator, is a machine that generates a magnetic pulse at...
Tinnitus Terminator Sale Price
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 9, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus Terminator Sale Price
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. You no longer have to suffer from the constant irritation of tinnitus. Take advantage of the current Tinnitus Terminator sale...
Braunes Rauschen Download
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 2, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Braunes Rauschen Download
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. What Is Brown Noise? Brown noise is a type of noise that is used to soothe people. It can also be used to treat tinnitus....
Tinnitus Cure Found
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 28, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Cure Found
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Many people are wondering whether there has been a tinnitus cure found. Unfortunately, as of yet, no tinnitus cure exists....
New Cures For Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 21, 2017
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: New Cures For Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus is a frustrating and often debilitating condition in which you perceive sounds within your ears. These sounds are...
Tinnitus Cure 2017
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 16, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Cure 2017
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus Cure 2017 For people trying to find a tinnitus cure 2017 may be the greatest year ever. There is more hope for an...
Tinnitus Therapy Music
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 15, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Therapy Music
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, is a problem for many. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, it is estimated...
Remission of Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 19, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: remission of tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus is a condition in which sufferers hear sounds without anything that might be causing the sound. It often manifests...
Sound Retrains the Tinnitus Brain
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 12, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: sound retrains the tinnitus brain
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus is a poorly-understood medical condition that presents itself as an unpleasant, distressing, and sometimes outright...
Auris Medical
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 21, 2016
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Auris Medical
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For people who suffer from inner ear disorders such as tinnitus, life can be anything but pleasant. A constant ringing,...
MSRP On Neuromonics Oasis
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 14, 2016
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: MSRP On Neuromonics Oasis
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For those who experience tinnitus, the condition can be one that at times is debilitating. Constant ringing in the ears,...
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy Online
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 14, 2016
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Retraining Therapy Online
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. The high-pitched persistent whining of tinnitus can range from irritating to maddening for many people. It may make it...
Tinnitus Gone After 1 Year
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 7, 2016
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Gone After 1 Year
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. There are millions of people who suffer from tinnitus. It's an annoying ringing in the ears that never seems to dissipate....
Acoustic CR Modulation Calgary
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 5, 2016
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Acoustic CR Modulation Calgary
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. In its continuing efforts to help sufferers manage tinnitus, the medical and therapeutic communities have produced a range of...
University Of Colorado Menieres
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 23, 2016
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: University Of Colorado Menieres
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. As anyone who has ever experienced problems with hearing loss can attest, it can be one of the most frustrating and...
Tms Therapy For Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 21, 2016
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tms Therapy For Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. An Overview Of Tinnitus Tinnitus is a debilitating condition that affects around 45 million people in America. It causes a...
GABA Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 14, 2016
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: GABA Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Many people have never experienced tinnitus, so they have no concept of how irritating and frustrating this condition can be....
Lidocaine Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 31, 2016
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Lidocaine Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. In the United States, up to 35 percent of adults will experience an episode of tinnitus. Although most cases of tinnitus are...
Auris Medical Am101
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 3, 2016
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Auris Medical AM101
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. The Swiss biopharmaceutical company Auris Medical is in the process of conducting the third clinical phase of trials on a...
Tinnitus Talk
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 26, 2016
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus talk
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus is a common condition that affects approximately one out of five people at some point in their life. Yet, the...
Tinnitus Relief From Japan 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 22, 2016
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Relief From Japan 2014
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus is the medical condition of ringing in the ears. Although millions of people, including Beethoven, have suffered...
Audible 2 Tinnitus Review
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 8, 2015
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Audible 2 Tinnitus Review
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus, also known as ringing of the ears, can be one of the most frustrating physical problems a person can deal with in...
Multi Tonal Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 1, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Multi Tonal Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Many people experience the periodic sensation of ringing in the ears as well as other transient noises that usually only last...
Tactt2 Study
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 27, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tactt2 Study
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For people who suffer from tinnitus, life can be very difficult. Constant ringing in their ears can make it virtually...
Tinnitus Relief From Japan 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 22, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Relief From Japan 2014
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus, which is the medical terminology for ringing in the ears, is actually a symptom of a medical condition rather than...
Habituation To Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 8, 2015
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Habituation To Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Habituation is being credited as an excellent form of therapy for tinnitus. It applies the theory that appropriate stimulus...
Tinnitus finally went away
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 29, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus finally went away
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For how many people does tinnitus finally just go away? The scientific literature hints at the possibility: Spontaneous...
Tinnitus Promising Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 30, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Promising Treatment
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus is the medical name of the mysterious noise millions of people have suffered from for years. Some of the different...
What are the most common tinnitus frequencies?
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 24, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus frequency distribution What are the most common tinnitus frequencies?
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. I've been reading the literature on tinnitus for several years, and I have yet to come across a paper that provided data on...
Tinnitus Developments
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 23, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus developments
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. The Newest Tinnitus Developments from Researchers Many individuals live with chronic tinnitus that causes the perception of...
Can Coffee Help My Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 12, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Can Coffee Help My Tinnitus?
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Understanding Tinnitus Tinnitus is a condition that causes a person to frequently experience a ringing sensation in their...
Notched Sound Therapy - How Strong is the Evidence, Really?
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 6, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Notched Music Therapy notched sound therapy Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy tinnitus research overview
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For the average person with tinnitus, making sense of the scientific literature on treatments is a difficult task. Without...
Homeopathy is not effective for treating any condition, study finds
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 31, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: homeopathy tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Highly relevant for those of us who have been duped by homeopathic "treatments" for tinnitus. Reminder: homeopathy is just...
Normal Audiogram Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 21, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: normal audiogram tinnitus
I've written about this previously here, but I decided to reproduce the article below since it's coming up so frequently: The development of tinnitus has a strong association with hearing loss. The association is so strong that many researchers believe that hearing loss is the most common cause of tinnitus – the...
New Research on Notched Music, Part 2
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 21, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: innovation up the ying yang Notched Music Therapy transcranial current
An interesting paper, also out of the original German research group headed by Dr. Christo Pantev, experimented with an interesting question: could the efficacy of Notched Music Therapy be increased by combining it with the direct application of transcranial current ? Unfortunately, the study did not find that adding a...
New Research on Notched Music, Part 1
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 21, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Notched Music Therapy
Another small study from the original German group that discovered Notched Sound Therapy has validated its efficacy. The sample size was small, but they did replicate the previous therapeutic treatment effects. It was similar in design to previous studies, but it's still heartening to see that the efficacy was...
Acetylcysteine and Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 5, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Acetylcysteine and Tinnitus
Tinnitus refers to the condition characterized by sounds heard in the ears that develop secondary to structural alterations. The noise varies from buzzing or ringing to chirping or thumping. The intensity also varies. The sounds may be continuous or intermittent based on possible pressure changes within the ear. Some...
Pilots With Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 17, 2015
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: pilots pilots and tinnitus Tinnitus
The noise and constant vibrations that are associated with air travel can take its toll on those who fly for a living. Pilots with tinnitus are very common. Pilots are one of the most notorious sufferers of ringing in the ears, a condition that is medically referred to as tinnitus. This condition is at best annoying....
Tinnitus Cure 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 12, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus Cure 2014
There are several factors that can cause ringing in the ears, or tinnitus. In some cases, tinnitus will go away on its own after a very short period of time, but others will suffer from this condition for a lengthy period of time. It can range from being irritating or bothersome to rather debilitating in terms of...
Is there evidence that caffeine can reduce tinnitus volume?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: caffeine and tinnitus diet and tinnitus
Here is an idea that I've always found intuitively ridiculous: the concept that dietary changes can modify your tinnitus tone volume. Now - most of you are probably aware of "EBooks" that purport to "cure" your tinnitus in an "all-natural" way, usually involved some combination of dietary modifications and new-age...
Tinnitus Forum rTMS
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 18, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: rTMS forum tinnitus rTMS tinnitus
For people suffering from tinnitus, they often want to learn about the experience of others with a particular treatment. One good source for this information is forums. Consider the following forum links to discussions on rTMS: Tinnitus Talk Forum thread on rTMS Tinnitus Support Forum on rTMS Unfortunately, the...
Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 20, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve tinnitus vagus nerve vagal nerve stimulation tinnitus vagal nerve therapy
Here's an overview of our posts on vagal nerve stimulation for tinnitus as a therapy: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Tinnitus New Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Study Approved Promising Early Results for Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus Treatment Vagal Nerve Therapy Trial Recruiting...
New tinnitus treatments 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 20, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: new tinnitus treatments 2014
Tinnitus is another name for a constant ringing in the ears. While the severity of the ringing will vary, one out of every five people is thought to suffer from tinnitus. However, it is not a condition itself. Tinnitus is a symptom of an underlying condition, such as a disorder of the circulatory system, an injury to...
Tinnitus Frequency Most Common Hz
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus Frequency Most Common Hz
Tinnitus, a chronic ringing in the ears, can be extremely frustrating for its victims. While some people are not negatively affected by this issue, others have serious problems. Anxiety, disrupted sleep patterns, and inability to concentrate are only a few of the issues experienced by those with tinnitus. It's a...
Can an old drug (D-cycloserine) reduce the cognitive side effects of tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: D-cycloserine tinnitus tinnitus research
Extremely interesting new research indicates that some tinnitus patients found a subjective improvement in their cognition when they took D-cycloserine: People with tinnitus perceive ringing in their ears and this phantom noise can cause difficulty concentrating. A new noise doesn’t make the perceived noise go away—but...
Another NMDA receptor antagonist for tinnitus is in clinical trials
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: NMDA receptor antagonist tinnitus
We've posted about another drug called AM-101 that acts in the same fashion, and here's a new one: Ear disease-focused firm Otonomy has entered an agreement with Ipsen allowing Otonomy to use Ipsen's gacyclidine data in the development and registration of OTO-311, Otonomy's sustained-exposure formulation of gacyclidine...
Tinnitus may only be curable in an initial 6 week window
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: furosemide tinnitus
New research on animal models indicates that a commonly used drug, Furosemide, may be effective in treating tinnitus: Six-week treatment window Mulders’ research suggests furosemide is only therapeutically effective in the first six weeks after hearing loss, when auditory neurons appear hyper-excitable. “There is...
Maladaptive Plasticity
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 8, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: Maladaptive Plasticity
For centuries, the medical community was under the assumption that once the brain matured, the number of neurons and pathways between these delicate connections were permanent. However, beginning in the 1950s, the theory of neuroplasticity emerged. This theory suggested that among the approximately 100 billion nerve...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 14, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: vagal nerve stimulation vagus nerve stimulation tinnitus
Note: this article was written by Max, one of our partners at HitTail Tinnitus is a symptom of mal-adaptive changes in your brain following hearing loss. It’s a disorder where the brain registers non-existent sound. Tinnitus has stages that can range from minor nuisance right to a debilitating reaction that can lead to...
Audio Interviews About Spontaneous Remission
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: spontaneous remission tinnitus
It's difficult, if not impossible, to find audio interviews about individuals detailing their experience of spontaneous remission of tinnitus. Instead, what I've done here is compile of list of the two best blog posts I wrote on the subject: Does tinnitus go away? (part 1) Does tinnitus go away ? (part 2)
Is Tinnitus under-appreciated by the Canadian Military?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus veteran veteran tinnitus
A sad case of a veteran unable to acquire effective treatment for his tinnitus: The couple has tried desperately to get help for tinnitus, which is treatable. Back in 2008, Veterans Affairs’ own medical examiner acknowledged that Rainville has tinnitus, and since then, they have been fighting for funding for...
Lidocaine Patch Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: lidocaine lidocaine patch tinnitus tinnitus treatment
Lidocaine patches are sometimes used for pain analgesia, such as for diabetic neuropathic pain. They can be applied locally to the skin and then diffuse into the affected area. There have been reports that intravenous administration of lidocaine can relieve tinnitus temporarily, but lidocaine isn't the kind of drug...
Audio Notch Filter
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 5, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: audio notch filter AudioNotch tinnitus filter
What is the Audio Notch Filter and how does it work? Check out the following infographic below to see - focus in on Step 2: The notch filter cuts out one equivalent rectangular bandwith on each side of the tinnitus frequency. The notch filter is based on this study (please note: the Notched Music study used a larger...
Meditation Fixes Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: meditation fixes tinnitus meditation tinnitus
Does meditation "fix" tinnitus? A new program called Mindfulness Based Tinnitus Stress Reduction has been studied as a therapy. Instead of directly attacking the volume of the tinnitus tone, this therapy indirectly targets our brain's negative reaction to the tinnitus percept. It's a brilliant technique that leverages...
AM101 Phase 3
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: AM-101 AM101 phase 3 clinical trials
AM101, a drug for treating the acute development of tinnitus, is entering Phase 3 clinical trials. Auris Medical today announced enrollment of the first patient into the TACTT2 1 clinical trial. This phase 3 trial will evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of intratympanic injections of AM-101 in the treatment...
Buy AM 101 Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: AM-101 buy AM 101 tinnitus Tinnitus
AM 101 is a drug currently in clinical trials for the treatment of tinnitus. A press release explains how it functions: AM-101 is a small molecule N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist formulated in a biocompatible gel for intratympanic injection. Emerging evidence suggests that NMDA receptors in the cochlea...
Is noise induced tinnitus reversible?
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 9, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: is noise induced tinnitus reversible?
This question can be rephrased as follows: Does noise induced tinnitus spontaneously remit on its own? The answer is that it depends on the acuity. It's more likely to remit the more recently you've acquired it. I've written a detailed post on this very subject that is accessible here.
Tinnitus Talk
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 8, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus talk
Tinnitus Talk is by far the best tinnitus forum on the internet. They're commercially independent, so they don't money from certain companies to promote a product (ours included). If you want to check them out, click here. To read posts about AudioNotch on the Tinnitus Talk forum, click here.
Forum Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 8, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: forum tinnitus
What's the best tinnitus forum on the internet? That's easy: Tinnitus Talk. Tinnitus Talk is a commercially independent tinnitus forum so you don't need to worry about conflict of interest. I'm aware of all the forums on-line and it's by far the best one. Click here to check out the forum. They have a great section on...
Does Tinnitus Go Away?
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 1, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: does tinnitus go away? does usually tinnitus go away spontaneous remission Tinnitus
This is definitely a question that's at the forefront of someone's mind if they've just recently acquired the symptom of tinnitus. First things first - if you develop tinnitus: seek the evaluation of a doctor. Some medical causes of tinnitus are reversible and some can be harbingers of serious illness (in rare cases,...
AM-101 Tinnitus Results
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 23, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: AM-101 AM-101 tinnitus results tinnitus research
Some of you may be aware of a new drug in development for the treatment of acute tinnitus acquired due to noise trauma. Noise trauma actually kills inner ear hair cells not via direct physical trauma, but via excitotoxicity from an increase in glutamate neurotransmitters. The AM-101 drug is designed to specifically...
McMaster is Running A Music Therapy for Tinnitus Study
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 3, 2014
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus Research
Tags: mcmaster university music for tinnitus music therapy tinnitus tinnitus music
Good news! If you're in the Hamilton area, McMaster University (my former alma mater) is running a trial of a customized music therapy for tinnitus. Could it be Notched Music Therapy? We'll have to wait and see! McMaster University is currently running a study to test if a customized sound therapy can reduce a person's...
Tinnitus Focused CBT Can Help You Cope With Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 22, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: CBT for tinnitus
Obviously, it's not a cure, but a new article in CNN referencing a new variant of CBT for tinnitus has shown efficacy in reducing subjective distress caused by tinnitus: The study, conducted in the Netherlands, involved 492 patients. Half received an audiological work-up and no other structured treatment, while the...
New Notched Music Research Trial Underway
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 8, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Notched Music Notched Music Therapy Notched Music tinnitus
At AudioNotch, we like to emphasize that we're based on scientific research. The majority of treatments marketed on-line for tinnitus are not actually scientifically supported, so it's important for us to differentiate ourselves from treatments that have no scientific basis. That said, "based on science" isn't the same...
Predicting Depression after the onset of tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 6, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: depression and tinnitus
An interesting study in 2013 points towards some of the underlying psychological vulnerabilities that may predispose people towards developing depression secondary to tinnitus: Conclusion : Optimism influences depression in tinnitus patients both directly and indirectly. The indirect effect indicates that optimism is...
It's not the tone, it's the brain's reaction to the tone
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 1, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus and neuroticism
The suffering caused by an everpresent tinnitus tone can be broken down into various subcomponents: The loss of concentration from the tone itself Anxiety caused by the tone Depression caused by the tone Psychological distress caused by the tone Insomnia caused by the tone The tone itself is just a tone - it's the...
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...
Cure for Tinnitus 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 10, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Cure for tinnitus 2014 stemc ells Tinnitus
It's definitely a headline-grabbing title: "Cure for Tinnitus 2014." What are we talking about here, exactly? What kind of research is going on right now that could push us closer to a cure? About a year ago I had an elective with a professor in Tinnitus research at McMaster University, and I asked him - if we could...
TMS Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 27, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: rTMS tinnitus and TMS TMS Tinnitus
TMS, as it is colloquially referred to (or Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which is the proper term) has recently been investigated as a possible treatment avenue for tinnitus. A lot patients get excited about TMS & tinnitus, but the results have not been good. People are attracted to TMS because it's...
Tinnitus Treatment 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 25, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus research tinnitus treatment 2014
What are the tinnitus treatment options that are promising right now? It's difficult to assess research findings before extensive clinical trials have come out, but I can point towards some areas of research in tinnitus treatment that are promising in 2014: I've blogged about them before: New U of M Study Offers...
Tinnitus Research 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 20, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus research 2014
Tinnitus Research 2014: what are some interesting new papers that have come out? When I'm writing the blog, I usually search the term "tinnitus" on google scholar and look for interesting papers that might be useful for our readers. Tinnitus is actually a very interesting research problem because it's that nexus of a...
Tinnitus Journal
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 13, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: international tinnitus journal tinnitus journal tinnitus research journal
Lots of people look for good academic resources on tinnitus. What's the leading tinnitus journal out there today? From what I can garner, there aren't many tinnitus specific journals. The majority of tinnitus research is essentially a subfield of neuroscience research at either the cellular or brain-imaging based...
Tinnitus Masker
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 11, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus masker
AudioNotch is happy to announce that our tinnitus masker is now available on mobile! We've successfully re-engineered it to work on all web browser platforms. A tinnitus masker is a useful tool for those of you who are looking for an auditory sleep aid or some type of ambient background music. Many of you find it...
More on the Michigan Research
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 6, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: dorsal cochlear nucleus tinnitus
There's a fantastic article available that provides a great overview of the research that's coming out of Michigan. We've posted on it before , but this particular research is exciting because it offers a possible avenue for treatment. Susan Shore, the senior author of the paper, explains that her team has confirmed...
Another Paper from the Pioneers of Notched Music Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 4, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Notched Music Notched music therapy tinnitus
The original discoverers of Notched Music therapy have released another paper that provides an excellent theoretical overview of the conceptual underpinnings of the therapy. Rather than rehash what the authors have already done a great job of writing about, I'll post the abstract below: Over the past 15 years, we have...
New U of M Study Offers Promise in Developing Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 7, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: neuroplasticity research Tinnitus tinnitus developments tinnitus research
Fascinating research from the University of Michigan has illuminated some amazing new results: She explains that in tinnitus, some of the input to the brain from the ear’s cochlea is reduced, while signals from the somatosensory nerves of the face and neck, related to touch, are excessively amplified. “It’s as if the...
Laser Therapy as a Treatment for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 2, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: laser therapy for tinnitus tinnitus review tinnitus treatment
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, because I can't postulate a mechanism for why this might work. But consider the following description of a tinnitus treatment: Subjects in the intervention group underwent laser therapy for 20 sessions, every other day, 20 minutes each session, which was a combination of...
What About Failed Drug Treatments for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment L-baclofen
One of the issues plaguing scientific research is the tendency to avoid publishing negative study results - i.e. if something DIDN'T work, people are far less prone to publish a scientific paper about it. That's why it's heartening to see research like this, on why L-baclofen doesn't appear to work in animal models of...
Childhood Tinnitus: What Do We Know
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 26, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus and children
Childhood tinntius is less common than tinnitus among adults. The profile of tinnitus causes in children seems to quite different for children. For example, myoclonus seems to be a much more common cause. Reviewing the abstract doesn't reveal that much: PURPOSE: Troublesome tinnitus in children can have an impact on...
Chronic Tinnitus Treated with Drug in Animals
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 19, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: chronic tinnitus NMDA receptor antagonist Tinnitus tinnitus reserach
Animal models have proven to be a fruitful avenue of research for tinnitus treatment (and I say fruitful in the sense that we've learned things - there aren't currently any tinnitus specific drugs that have made it to market for chronic tinnitus). Many of these drug treatments have focused on drugs for acute onset...
Promising Early Results for Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 5, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus vagal nerve therapy vagal nerve therapy tinnitus
Encouraging results have been reported in a small trial of vagal nerve therapy for tinnitus : UT Dallas researchers have demonstrated that treating tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, using vagus nerve stimulation-tone therapy is safe and brought significant improvement to some of the participants in a small clinical...
Tinnitus and Neuroticism, Part 2
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus and neuroticism tinnitus research
We've posted on a similar tinnitus study in the past linking neuroticism as a personality trait to tinnitus . Now, a new press article summarizes some of the findings in a more accessible framework: People with 'neurotic' tendencies are more likely to be troubled by their tinnitus, a new study involving researchers at...
New Guest Article on DJ Tech Tools about Tinnitus Treatments
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 25, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
AudioNotch has written a guest article on the DJ Tech Tools blog about tinnitus treatments. Check it out!
Study Suggests Tinnitus Significantly Disrupts Sleeping
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 20, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus and insomnia tinnitus and sleep tinnitus sleep disruption
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that tinnitus causes increased sleep latency and insomnia. What's surprising to me is this recent study, which seems to suggest that tinnitus patients may suffer from disruption of multiple sleep stages, including a significant reduction in REM sleep : All tinnitus patients had a...
Company Researching Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Acquires
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 17, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus vagal nerve therapy
Some individuals are fairly excited about the new research being done on Vagal Nerve Therapy . My current understanding is that this involves playing paired auditory tones with vagal nerve stimulation, in an effort to reverse the neuroplastic changes that occur from tinnitus. This firm has released a press release...