November 2014 Archive
Browse all posts from November 2014.
Musical tonnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 27, 2014
Categories: AudioNotch
Tags: musical tonnitus
From the British Tinnitus Association, an interesting review of Musical Hallucinations - otherwise known as musical tinnitus: What is musical hallucination? Musical hallucination (MH) is the experience of hearing music when none is being played. Hearing sound that no-one else can hear is quite common, but the...
Tinnitus Desperation
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 21, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus Desperation
What Can Cause Tinnitus? Anyone dealing with constant ringing and clanging noises in their ears will have tinnitus desperation that leads to visiting multiple physicians for medical treatments. No one knows exactly what causes tinnitus symptoms, but many medical experts have theories concerning the condition. In many...
Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 20, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve tinnitus vagus nerve vagal nerve stimulation tinnitus vagal nerve therapy
Here's an overview of our posts on vagal nerve stimulation for tinnitus as a therapy: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Tinnitus New Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Study Approved Promising Early Results for Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus Treatment Vagal Nerve Therapy Trial Recruiting...
New tinnitus treatments 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 20, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: new tinnitus treatments 2014
Tinnitus is another name for a constant ringing in the ears. While the severity of the ringing will vary, one out of every five people is thought to suffer from tinnitus. However, it is not a condition itself. Tinnitus is a symptom of an underlying condition, such as a disorder of the circulatory system, an injury to...
A musical composer copes with tinnitus through art
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 16, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: art and tinnitus tinnitus and composition
Tinnitus can be an extremely debilitating affliction. Sometimes people are devastated by the illness. Take, for example, the story of one young composer by the name of Fishkin, who was unable to continue in his field of work because of tinnitus. Creating an art show that incorporates sounds reminiscent of tinnitus was...
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...