The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
A story from an AudioNotch User
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 24, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: audionotch review seniors and tinnitus
We love to publish stories from AudioNotch users who have had their tinnitus volume reduced with AudioNotch. Here's one from a senior user of ours who asked that his name be redacted: A little history. My tinnitus came on like a loaded freight train. In one day it came on full strength, no warnings, no gradual increase...
AudioNotch Review & Success Rate Data - One Month and Two Month Surveys
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 20, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementAudioNotchHearingTinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: AudioNotch audionotch review audionotch success rate tinnitus treatment
For a long time, our users have asked us about the success rate of AudioNotch. And for a long time, we'd told them the truth: we don't actually have this data, because not enough people respond to our internal surveys about the efficacy of our tinnitus treatment. Basically, a small percentage of our users respond to...
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...
Tinnitus Increasingly Common Among Young People in the Developed World
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 17, 2013
Categories: Hearing
Tags: hearing loss hearing loss and tinnitus young people tinnitus youth and tinnitus
A study in Belgium has validated what many of us have observed - young people aren't taking care of their hearing: Annick Gilles, research audiologist at the University Hospital of Antwerp, who is doing her doctoral research about tinnitus has discovered that it is increasingly common among young people in Belgium....
Summary of AudioNotch Guest Posts
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 12, 2013
Categories: Announcement
Tags: audionotch review audionotch tinnitus
AudioNotch has been busy at work guest-posting on other blogs. Check out some of our informative posts below: Tinnitus Treatment Options on DJ Tech Tools Seniors and Tinnitus on The Words of Wisdom Blog
UK Professor Discusses Tinnitus Treatment Options
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 10, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
A professor in the UK has discussed some of the challenges in providing comprehensive tinnitus care to patients: Professor Berthold Langguth, a leading researcher on tinnitus, visited Gibraltar this week to give a series of lectures and advise the health sector on tinnitus. In an interview with the Chronicle Professor...
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 Psychiatry
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 14, 2013
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: tinnitus and depression tinnitus and psychiatry
Tinnitus has been associated with anxiety and depression, among other psychiatric disorders. There is a role for psychiatrists to treat tinnitus sufferers who have significant comorbid psychiatric conditions: When relief finally came for De Mong, it was not in the form of a tinnitus specialist or an ear doctor, but a...