The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Tinnitus Talk Support Forum
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 8, 2014
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Tags: tinnitus talk
I'm just going to come out right now and say it: Tinnitus Talk is the best tinnitus forum out there on the internet. Bar none. The level of discussion there, as well as the community and the quality of web site design, is superb. It's a great resource and I recommend that anyone with tinnitus check it out. I wish it...