The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
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 NYU
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 18, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: acupuncture tinnitus natural tinnitus treatments NYU Langone Medical Center tinnitus treatment nyu
Lots of patients in the New York area search for tinnitus treatment available at NYU. The NYU Langone Medical Center has a series of helpful articles for people searching for "tinnitus treatment NYU" that I'll offer some brief recaps below for: NYU's medical center on homeopathic treatments for tinnitus: A 12-week,...
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...
Why Your Ears Keep Ringing (And What You Can Do About It)
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 4, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: tinnitus and technology
Gizmodo has written an introductory post on tinnitus. Check it out here: Some perceive it as a high-pitched, mosquito-like squeal; others, an incessant electrical buzzing. It can even sound like unintelligible voices or music. It's known as tinnitus, and it's a surprisingly common affliction, affecting some 50 million...