The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
National Tinnitus Awareness Week is May 19-25, 2013
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 25, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Tags: National Tinnitus Awareness Week Tinnitus
The American Tinnitus Association (by far the leading nonprofit group with respect to tinnitus advocacy) continues to promote awareness of this condition by organizing events in the United States. From a press release on the subject: PORTLAND, Ore., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Tinnitus...
New Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Study Approved
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 23, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus vagal nerve stimulation vagal nerve therapy tinnitus
Interesting news on new tinnitus therapy research: a study has been approved in Texas to test the efficacy of vagal nerve therapy (which we've written about before) with respect to tinnitus treatment. The therapeutic approach developed at UT Dallas pairs audible tones with brief pulses of electrical stimulation to the...
Tinnitus and Pilots: A Study Shows Increased Risk
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 18, 2013
Tags: aircraft hearing loss tinnitus and airline pilots tinnitus and hearing loss tinnitus and pilots
There's a great deal of noise exposure in certain lines of work. Unsurprisingly, a lot of anecdotal evidence suggests an increased risk of tinnitus among airline pilots. Pilots are routinely exposed to extremely loud noise from the function of their aircraft engines. As such, they often suffer noise induced hearing...
The Authors of the Notched White Noise Paper Are Collaborating With AudioNotch
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 17, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Tags: Dr. Marco Lugli Notched Natural Sounds Notched White Noise tinnitus treatment
Although AudioNotch is an independent and academically unaffiliated corporation, we're in contact with the authors of the Notched White Noise paper, which you can check out in our science section . They've given us permission to publish some of the communication that's occurred to us, some of which is relevant to...
ABC News On the Anecdotal Association Between Tinnitus and Suicide
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 4, 2013
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and depression tinnitus and suicide
For some individuals, it appears as if tinnitus can precipitate some very serious mental illnesses such as severe depression, which may unfortunately culminate in suicide : Of 9,000 patients who have come to the tinnitus clinic at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, clinic director Billy Martin said he was...
Noel Gallagher, Frontman of Oasis, Reveals He Has Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 2, 2013
Tags: hearing loss noel gallagher Tinnitus
Add another casualty to the list of musicians felled by tinnitus secondary to noise-induced hearing loss : Noel Gallagher has revealed that he is suffering from tinnitus, having recently being diagnosed with the condition by doctors. The condition, which is characterised by ringing in the ears in the absence of...
Cool Paper: "Homeostatic plasticity drives tinnitus perception in an animal model."
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 22, 2013
Tags: homeostasis neuroplasticity SCIENCE Tinnitus
Another cool paper has come out presenting animal research on the patho-physiology (abnormal physiology) that produces tinnitus. The abstract reads fairly easily: Hearing loss often results in tinnitus and auditory cortical map changes, leading to the prevailing view that the phantom perception is associated with...
More Research on Lateral Inhibition
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 19, 2013
Tags: lateral inhibition neuroscience Tinnitus
An interesting paper reveals a little bit more about the relationship between abnormal lateral inhibition and tinnitus. The abstract is a bit opaque : Tinnitus is likely initiated by a discontinuity in the spontaneous or low-level-stimulus induced neural activity across auditory nerve fibers with different...
Are AudioNotch's Prices Unethical?
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 14, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Tags: development costs price gouging Tinnitus tinnitus treatment
Here's an e-mail we received from a user who was upset about what we charge for our tinnitus treatment service: Hello, I want to know and understand why you charge so much for this treatment? I understand that developing etc. has cost you time and probably some money, but nowhere even close to what you are charging....
Why do Some People Get Tinnitus But Other People Don't?
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 12, 2013
Tags: protective factors against tinnitus Tinnitus tinnitus experiments
Interesting research offers a possible explanation as to why, even when exposed to the same external harmful noise stimulus, some individuals will develop tinnitus and other individuals will not. Extrapolating findings from research on animals may reveal why some people develop tinnitus while others do not. Animals...