The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
AudioNotch Testimonial
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: AudioNotchTreatment Review
Tags: audionotch testimonial
A user by the name of Anthony sent us this e-mail recently: Hi all, just want you to know that I have been treating (listening) to your notched white noise now for about 13 months, its only been in the last month that I am having more than 1 T free day a week, in the last 2 weeks Im experiencing 2-3-4 days in a row...
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...
Hearing Loss And Tinnitus Causes
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 18, 2014
Tags: hearing loss tinnitus
Written by Max for AudioNotch at HitTail.com Hearing is one of the most important senses, but it unfortunately is also the sense that is most common for people to lose. Everyone loses some of their hearing ability as they get older. It is just a part of aging. One thing that many people don’t realize is that hearing...
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...
TMS Treatment Blog
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation rTMS TMS Tinnitus TMS Treatment blog transcranial magnetic stimulation
The subject of TMS as a treatment for tinnitus has come up multiple times on the AudioNotch blog. Despite promising early small scale studies, we've repeatedly reviewed evidence that indicates that TransCranial Magnetic Stimulation is an ineffective treatment for tinnitus: Tinnitus Research: rTMS rTMS for Tinnitus: the...
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)