Tag: research
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New U of M Study Offers Promise in Developing Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 7, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: neuroplasticity research Tinnitus tinnitus developments tinnitus research
Fascinating research from the University of Michigan has illuminated some amazing new results: She explains that in tinnitus, some of the input to the brain from the ear’s cochlea is reduced, while signals from the somatosensory nerves of the face and neck, related to touch, are excessively amplified. “It’s as if the...
Tinnitus Research: Maladaptive Plasticity
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 7, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: inhibitory neurotransmission pathophysiology research Tinnitus
Recent research has summarized the following the model as one of the leading hypotheses behind the pathological basis of tinnitus: A compelling hypothesis is that tinnitus results from a maladaptive plastic net down-regulation of inhibitory amino acid neurotransmission in the central auditory pathway. This loss of...
Stem Cells as a Tinnitus Treatment?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 5, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: research stem cells Tinnitus
There are many possible avenues for a total tinnitus cure (i.e. a complete cessation of all tinnitus symptoms). We've posted before on the positive results of using stem cells to restore hearing following the death of cochlear hearing cells. Most people have sensorineural tinnitus induced by hearing loss, so...
Why Positional Changes of The Jaw and Head and Neck Can Change Your Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 18, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: research somatosensory neurons Tinnitus
There's long been a great deal of anecdotal evidence indicating that positional changes of the head and neck can dynamically and instantaneously affect one's tinnitus tone and volume. The exact pathophysiology of why this is the case has long been a mystery, but most suspected that varying sensory nerves in the head...