October 2013 Archive
Browse all posts from October 2013.
Tinnitus Treatment and Fraud
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 31, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: tinnitus deception tinnitus fraud
Anyone passingly familiar with the tinnitus treatment space knows that there is a high prevalence of treatments that are not based on scientific evidence, or are simply outright frauds. This high prevalence of bogus treatments is attributable to the fact there there is no present tinnitus cure, and fraudsters attempt...
rTMS for Tinnitus: A Discouraging Study
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 29, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: rTMS rTMS tinnitus treatment transcranial magnetic stimulation tinnitus
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a treatment that has been tested for tinnitus. There has been some promising literature with guided rTMS in the past. In the procedure, a magnet is used to modify neurons non-invasively, by holding it over a patient's head. The technology has been used to treat...
Tinnitus and Neuroticism, Part 2
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus and neuroticism tinnitus research
We've posted on a similar tinnitus study in the past linking neuroticism as a personality trait to tinnitus . Now, a new press article summarizes some of the findings in a more accessible framework: People with 'neurotic' tendencies are more likely to be troubled by their tinnitus, a new study involving researchers at...
Awesome UI Suggestions from Our Users
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus software UI UI
A user of ours, Scott Lauder, has a background in UI design. He sent us some great feedback, along with a UI wireframe mockup, of how we could further improve our tuner application. Thanks Scott! Today as I was using the "find your tone" interface, I found myself not completely confident of the tone I was locking in...