The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

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 two “polar ends” of neuroscience research has been a vexing problem in neuroscience (not just for tinnitus researchers). Probing the neural circuits by determining the neural connectome is an arduous, difficult task, and more progress needs to be made. The nature of the research problem with respect to tinnitus is that real progress is often interdisciplinary. That’s why it’s important to integrate researchers who attack the problem from different angles. In this vein, the Tinnitus Research Initiative was founded. Read about the foundation below:

Tinnitus Research Initiative is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the development of effective treatments for all types of tinnitus so that relief can be obtained by everyone who suffers from it.

The Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI) is a project dedicated to improving the quality of life for patients who suffer from tinnitus and tinnitus-related disorders. Central to the mission of TRI is facilitating and supporting biomedical research which will lead to novel, effective therapies for the treatment of tinnitus.

Historically tinnitus research has been undertaken by individuals or small groups from a wide range of different disciplines and mostly working independently of each other. The activities of TRI are based on the belief that collaboration across disciplines is essential for better understanding of tinnitus and for the development of effective treatments.