Posts by AudioNotch Team

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The Definitive Guide To Detecting Your Tinnitus Frequency

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 1, 2019

Tags: AudioNotch tinnitus frequency matching tinnitus tuning

Detecting your tinnitus frequency isn't easy. Data shows that about fifty percent of users will be able to consistently and reliably identify a tinnitus frequency that matches their own. This process is called "pitch-masking," "frequency-matching," or "tinnitus tuning" (all of these terms are interchangeable). The...

Tinnitus and Ketamine

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 30, 2018

Categories: Doctor Tinnitus Tinnitus Research Tinnitus Treatment

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and depression tinnitus cure tinnitus treatment

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. With one in five Americans suffering from chronic ringing in the ears, better known as tinnitus, there's no doubt this is a...

Zinc Deficiency And Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 9, 2017

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus Tinnitus Treatment Treatment Review Zinc Zinc Deficiency

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. According to statistics, the hearing disorder known as tinnitus affects approximately 17 percent of the population. The...

Evidence for Notched Sound Therapy: Does it Actually Lower Tinnitus Volume?

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 9, 2017

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: notched sound therapy Tailor-Made Notched Music Therapy Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy tinnitus treatment

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Here's a summary of experimental research that has demonstrated a reduction in tinnitus volume with Notched Sound Therapy:...

Does Neuromonics Work?

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 11, 2016

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Does Neuromonics Work?

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. We often ask ourselves does Neuromonics work. Neuromonics is a therapy developed to minimize the mental, physical and...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation For Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 16, 2016

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Vagus Nerve Stimulation For Tinnitus

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. People suffering from severe tinnitus have a hard time finding helpful therapies. Now, a new treatment using vagus nerve...

Tinnitus With Ptsd

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 7, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Tinnitus With Ptsd

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus and post-traumatic stress disorder are at the top of the list of reasons veterans seek help from the VA. People who...

Should I listen to Notched Sound Therapy in both ears if I have tinnitus in one ear?

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 31, 2015

Categories: Uncategorized

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. A lot of people who have unilateral tinnitus (tinnitus in only one ear) write to ask me if they should listen to AudioNotch...

What are the most common tinnitus frequencies?

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 24, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: tinnitus frequency distribution What are the most common tinnitus frequencies?

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. I've been reading the literature on tinnitus for several years, and I have yet to come across a paper that provided data on...

Can tinnitus suddenly go away?

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 18, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Can tinnitus suddenly go away?

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. If there is a ringing noise in your ear, do not ignore it. This noise could lead to the common medical condition known as...

Mutebutton Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2015

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: Mutebutton Tinnitus

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Tinnitus is a hearing affliction that affects millions of individuals. It manifests as a constant ringing, buzzing, or...

Can Coffee Help My Tinnitus?

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 12, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: Can Coffee Help My Tinnitus?

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Understanding Tinnitus Tinnitus is a condition that causes a person to frequently experience a ringing sensation in their...

Notched Sound Therapy - How Strong is the Evidence, Really?

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 6, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: Notched Music Therapy notched sound therapy Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy tinnitus research overview

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. For the average person with tinnitus, making sense of the scientific literature on treatments is a difficult task. Without...

Normal Audiogram Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 21, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: normal audiogram tinnitus

I've written about this previously here, but I decided to reproduce the article below since it's coming up so frequently: The development of tinnitus has a strong association with hearing loss. The association is so strong that many researchers believe that hearing loss is the most common cause of tinnitus – the...

Acoustic Co-ordinated Reset

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 9, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Acoustic Co-ordinated Reset

Tinnitus is a phantom auditory sensation which may be a transient or chronic condition. There are a number of factors that CAN cause tinnitus, but excessive exposure to noise and aging are the two most common. There are various theories concerning the biological processes that produce the sound that only the person...

Acetylcysteine and Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 5, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: Acetylcysteine and Tinnitus

Tinnitus refers to the condition characterized by sounds heard in the ears that develop secondary to structural alterations. The noise varies from buzzing or ringing to chirping or thumping. The intensity also varies. The sounds may be continuous or intermittent based on possible pressure changes within the ear. Some...

Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment Review

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 5, 2015

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: neuromonics review neuromonics tinnitus treatment review

For those who suffer from tinnitus, it can be extremely frustrating. It is a condition that causes a buzzing or ringing in the ears that never goes away. Over 50 million Americans struggle with this condition on a daily basis, with even more on a worldwide level. The root cause of the problem is not clear and there is...

Memantine For Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 4, 2015

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Memantine For Tinnitus

Memantine is an NMDA channel blocker and is undergoing intense research to determine if it has high potential for treating tinnitus through pharmacological solutions. Research is studying the effect of memantine on NMDA currents that impact neurotransmissions and is evaluating the impact of memantine on the auditory...

Pilots With Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on January 17, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: pilots pilots and tinnitus Tinnitus

The noise and constant vibrations that are associated with air travel can take its toll on those who fly for a living. Pilots with tinnitus are very common. Pilots are one of the most notorious sufferers of ringing in the ears, a condition that is medically referred to as tinnitus. This condition is at best annoying....

Trent Reznor Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on January 14, 2015

Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus

Tags: Trent Reznor Tinnitus

Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame, suffers from tinnitus. The popular musician/songwriter has written about the affliction in a number of lyrics including "Something I Can Never Have" and "The Becoming." Reznor is not alone. Dozens of famous people from the past and present had or have the condition. An estimated...

Is there evidence that caffeine can reduce tinnitus volume?

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: caffeine and tinnitus diet and tinnitus

Here is an idea that I've always found intuitively ridiculous: the concept that dietary changes can modify your tinnitus tone volume. Now - most of you are probably aware of "EBooks" that purport to "cure" your tinnitus in an "all-natural" way, usually involved some combination of dietary modifications and new-age...

Tinnitus Volume Mayo Clinic

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 25, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: mayo clinic tinnitus tinnitus volume mayo clinic

The Mayo Clinic is considered a good resource for patients who want to acquire a basic understanding of their illness and also to seek clinical diagnosis and treatment for whatever symptoms they're experiencing. Lots of people seeking to reduce the volume of their tinnitus will likely look for resources like the mayo...

Why Hope?

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 24, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: hope and illness stoicism suffering

Why hope? It's a simple question. Despite the best efforts of medical science, and despite the existence of treatments that can lessen your suffering, there still exists no cure for tinnitus. I regularly get e-mails from people who have slipped into despair. They tell me that they can't sleep because of the noise. They...

Tinnitus Pillow

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 23, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: tinnitus insomnia tinnitus pillow

Some of our users have e-mailed us regarding the possibility of listening to Notched Sound Therapy in their sleep. Would this work? What would be the efficacy of this? Although we don't have any clinical evidence that Notched Sound Therapy would work overnight, it's not necessarily an unreasonable thing to try....

Famous People Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 16, 2014

Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus

Tags: famous people tinnitus

What are Symptoms of Tinnitus? Tinnitus is an unusual health condition that physicians do not completely understand. In addition to affecting ordinary everyday people, there are famous people tinnitus sufferers attempting to cope with the strange symptoms. Patients visiting physicians or audiologists describe hearing...

And then it rained

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 13, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: personal story Tinnitus

When I was 22 years old, I went out with some friends to a nightclub. I was in my first year of medical school. Like most people my age, I wasn't concerned with noise trauma (despite being a medical student). The next day, I noticed the ringing in my ears wasn't gone. I started to research tinnitus. I became panicked -...

Residual Inhibition for Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 10, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: residual inhibition tinnitus Tinnitus

Some of our users have noticed that listening to their tinnitus frequency using our tinnitus tuner, and then turning the computer generate sound off, can result in a temporary reduction in their tinnitus tone. This is a known phenomenon that has been studied and is known as residual inhibition. To read more about this...

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 Frequency Most Common Hz

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus 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: Tinnitus Tinnitus 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...

Tinnitus may only be curable in an initial 6 week window

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research Treatment 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: AudioNotch Treatment 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: Tinnitus Tinnitus 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...

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...

Successful People With Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014

Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus

Tags: successful people with tinnitus

Can you be successful and have a debilitating medical illness like tinnitus? Yes, absolutely. There are ways of coping with tinnitus that will allow you to focus and concentrate. If you want to feel inspired, check out this visual list of people who've attained great success, despite having tinnitus. A few of the more...

Is Tinnitus under-appreciated by the Canadian Military?

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: tinnitus veteran veteran tinnitus

A sad case of a veteran unable to acquire effective treatment for his tinnitus: The couple has tried desperately to get help for tinnitus, which is treatable. Back in 2008, Veterans Affairs’ own medical examiner acknowledged that Rainville has tinnitus, and since then, they have been fighting for funding for...

MDMA as Tinnitus Treatment?

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: MDMA tinnitus MDMA tinnitus treatment

Not recommended, but interesting nonetheless: An illegal party drug could hold the answer tinnitus sufferers have long been waiting to hear. This week, an international conference devotes three days of expert discussion to tinnitus research, a condition which causes a constant and long-term ringing within the ear drum....

AudioNotch User Review: An example of when it didn't work out

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 4, 2014

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: tinnitus treatment user review

Below, I've reproduced a e-mail from one of our users. This user provided some really good feedback and I wanted the chance to discuss it. It's important for us to stress that we don't have a 100% success rate. Anyone who makes ridiculous claims like that is selling you snake oil. Below is an example of a user who...

What if one has have multiple tinnitus tones?

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 1, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

If one has multiple tinnitus tones, you can match them as needed. However, our software was only designed to treat one tinnitus tone at a time. If you want, it’s possible to make a track with multiple notches. Let’s say you have two tinnitus tones t1 and t2 at two different frequencies, f1 and f2. To create a Notched...

Barbra Streisand and Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 22, 2014

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: barbra streisand barbra streisand and tinnitus tinnitusb

Here's an interview where Barbra Streisand talks about her tinnitus: There's something important about this anecdote: Streisand acquired tinnitus years before her singing career, and despite that, became tremendously successful. This isn't to disparage the very real, and individually variable suffering of tinnitus...

The trouble with anecdotes: Desensitisation therapy for tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 22, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: tinnitus desenstitation therapy

The trouble with anecdotes is that you can use them to prove anything. As in, literally - anything. The scientific method came out of the realization that proving causality (i.e. A causes B ) couldn't be done from anecdotes alone. Teasing out the causality from a single linear sequence of events is logically...

Celebrities with Meniere's Disease

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 17, 2014

Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus Tinnitus

Tags: celebrities with meniere's disease Ryan Adams

Meniere's disease is an oftentimes debilitating condition that can cause bouts of intense vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss. Ryan Adams, a billboard top 100 singer, details his harrowing experience with this illness in US magazine: UsMagazine.com: Your last album of brand new material was Cardinology (with your band,...

How To Use AudioNotch with an Audiologist

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: audiology tinnitus audionotch audiology tinnitus audiology partnership

Some users seek us out requesting help with AudioNotch by having their tinnitus frequency determined by an audiologist. To do so, Request a tinnitus evaluation that includes an evaluation of your tinnitus frequency. Some, but not all, audiologists provide this frequency matching as a service. Plug the value in hZ that...

Lidocaine Patch Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: lidocaine lidocaine patch tinnitus tinnitus treatment

Lidocaine patches are sometimes used for pain analgesia, such as for diabetic neuropathic pain. They can be applied locally to the skin and then diffuse into the affected area. There have been reports that intravenous administration of lidocaine can relieve tinnitus temporarily, but lidocaine isn't the kind of drug...

Audio Notch Filter

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 5, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: audio notch filter AudioNotch tinnitus filter

What is the Audio Notch Filter and how does it work? Check out the following infographic below to see - focus in on Step 2: The notch filter cuts out one equivalent rectangular bandwith on each side of the tinnitus frequency. The notch filter is based on this study (please note: the Notched Music study used a larger...

Meditation Fixes Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: meditation fixes tinnitus meditation tinnitus

Does meditation "fix" tinnitus? A new program called Mindfulness Based Tinnitus Stress Reduction has been studied as a therapy. Instead of directly attacking the volume of the tinnitus tone, this therapy indirectly targets our brain's negative reaction to the tinnitus percept. It's a brilliant technique that leverages...

Chris Martin Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014

Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus

Tags: chris martin tinnitus coldplay tinnitus

Did you know that Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, suffers from tinnitus? Martin started playing in a band while in middle school. As you may know, the band he later formed, Coldplay, went on to become world famous. By the time Martin was 25 years old, though, he had begun to experience headaches and ringing...

AM101 Phase 3

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: AM-101 AM101 phase 3 clinical trials

AM101, a drug for treating the acute development of tinnitus, is entering Phase 3 clinical trials. Auris Medical today announced enrollment of the first patient into the TACTT2 1 clinical trial. This phase 3 trial will evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of intratympanic injections of AM-101 in the treatment...

Buy AM 101 Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: AM-101 buy AM 101 tinnitus Tinnitus

AM 101 is a drug currently in clinical trials for the treatment of tinnitus. A press release explains how it functions: AM-101 is a small molecule N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist formulated in a biocompatible gel for intratympanic injection. Emerging evidence suggests that NMDA receptors in the cochlea...

Tinnitus Blog

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 9, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: tinnitus blog

Now, we here at AudioNotch don't necessarily like to toot our own horn too much, but we've taken a look at some of the other blogs on the internet, and we feel pretty confident in stating that the AudioNotch Blog is one of the best ones out there. Things we cover here: Recent developments in tinnitus treatment...

Does Tinnitus Go Away?

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 1, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: does tinnitus go away? does usually tinnitus go away spontaneous remission Tinnitus

This is definitely a question that's at the forefront of someone's mind if they've just recently acquired the symptom of tinnitus. First things first - if you develop tinnitus: seek the evaluation of a doctor. Some medical causes of tinnitus are reversible and some can be harbingers of serious illness (in rare cases,...

Tinnitus and Suicide

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 30, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: mental health tinnitus and suicide

The topic of tinnitus and suicide is a complex one. I've taken a look at some of the information I could find and I think the following points are reasonable: Establishing a causal relationship between cases of tinnitus and suicide is methodologically extremely difficult, and likely impossible. We know that people who...

AM-101 Tinnitus Results

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 23, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: AM-101 AM-101 tinnitus results tinnitus research

Some of you may be aware of a new drug in development for the treatment of acute tinnitus acquired due to noise trauma. Noise trauma actually kills inner ear hair cells not via direct physical trauma, but via excitotoxicity from an increase in glutamate neurotransmitters. The AM-101 drug is designed to specifically...

McMaster is Running A Music Therapy for Tinnitus Study

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 3, 2014

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus Research

Tags: mcmaster university music for tinnitus music therapy tinnitus tinnitus music

Good news! If you're in the Hamilton area, McMaster University (my former alma mater) is running a trial of a customized music therapy for tinnitus. Could it be Notched Music Therapy? We'll have to wait and see! McMaster University is currently running a study to test if a customized sound therapy can reduce a person's...

Tinnitus Focused CBT Can Help You Cope With Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 22, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: CBT for tinnitus

Obviously, it's not a cure, but a new article in CNN referencing a new variant of CBT for tinnitus has shown efficacy in reducing subjective distress caused by tinnitus: The study, conducted in the Netherlands, involved 492 patients. Half received an audiological work-up and no other structured treatment, while the...

The Psychological Devastation of Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 15, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: tinnitus and depression tinnitus and psychological distress

The mood disorders that can result after the onset of tinnitus are devastating for many people. I believe that some people are more predisposed than others to developing a crippling depression after the onset of tinnitus. There are likely a set of vulnerabilities in certain peoples' brains that make them more...

Predicting Depression after the onset of tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 6, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: depression and tinnitus

An interesting study in 2013 points towards some of the underlying psychological vulnerabilities that may predispose people towards developing depression secondary to tinnitus: Conclusion : Optimism influences depression in tinnitus patients both directly and indirectly. The indirect effect indicates that optimism is...

It's not the tone, it's the brain's reaction to the tone

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 1, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: tinnitus and neuroticism

The suffering caused by an everpresent tinnitus tone can be broken down into various subcomponents: The loss of concentration from the tone itself Anxiety caused by the tone Depression caused by the tone Psychological distress caused by the tone Insomnia caused by the tone The tone itself is just a tone - it's the...

Meditating with Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 29, 2014

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: meditating with tinnitus tinnitus and meditation

Below is an excerpt from a great article written by a tinnitus sufferer on how to meditate with tinnitus. As a tinnitus sufferer herself, the author can speak to the difficult daily reality of a person suffering from tinnitus. I think this another example of why the internet is such a powerful advocacy tool for people...

Vagal Nerve Therapy Trial Recruiting Patients

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 17, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: clinical trial vagal nerve therapy

An American clinical trial is being launched for Vagal Nerve Therapy for tinnitus. This is pretty exciting news (although the research thus far is limited). A summary below: The new study uses a technique known as vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) that takes advantage of the brain’s ability to reconfigure itself...

A Twentysomething Millenial With Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 10, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: tinnitus stories young people with tinnitus

As a young person who developed tinnitus at 23, I had few people who could relate to my condition. That's why I'm so glad that people are willing to share their stories of illness. I really enjoyed the following story on XoJane: My life as I knew it ended with a slosh. Way back in 2003, when I was a junior in college,...

Sound Therapy Music

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 3, 2014

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: Notched Music notched sound therapy Sound Therapy Music

Is there such a thing as Sound Therapy Music for tinnitus? The term can be used interchangeably with "Notched Music," "Notched Music Therapy," and other terms. Originally discovered by Christo Pantev's German lab, other experiments have shown efficacy with Notching other sounds as well, such as white noise. To read...

TMS Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 27, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: rTMS tinnitus and TMS TMS Tinnitus

TMS, as it is colloquially referred to (or Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which is the proper term) has recently been investigated as a possible treatment avenue for tinnitus. A lot patients get excited about TMS & tinnitus, but the results have not been good. People are attracted to TMS because it's...

Tinnitus Treatment NYU

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 18, 2014

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: acupuncture tinnitus natural tinnitus treatments NYU Langone Medical Center tinnitus treatment nyu

Lots of patients in the New York area search for tinnitus treatment available at NYU. The NYU Langone Medical Center has a series of helpful articles for people searching for "tinnitus treatment NYU" that I'll offer some brief recaps below for: NYU's medical center on homeopathic treatments for tinnitus: A 12-week,...

DJ Paul Oakenfeld Urges Hearing Protection

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 18, 2014

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus Uncategorized

Tags: paul oakenfeld Tinnitus tinnitus paul oakenfeld

If you know anything about electronic music, you'll know that Paul Oakenfeld is a huge name. One of the bigger DJ's from the 90's, he was one of the predecessors to the new Electronic Dance Music trend that's risen in recent popularity. As with any concert venue, the noise levels at such performances are always unsafe....

Doctors and Tinnitus Treatment Options

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 11, 2014

Categories: Announcement Treatment Review

Tags: tinnitus treatment options

Based on the anecdotes I've received from a lot of AudioNotch users, I've come to believe that many physicians are not very well versed in the treatment options available for tinnitus and the level of research behind them. Consider the following response to a patient's query on a popular "Ask the Doctor" column: Dear...

More on the Michigan Research

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 6, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: dorsal cochlear nucleus tinnitus

There's a fantastic article available that provides a great overview of the research that's coming out of Michigan. This research is exciting because it offers a possible avenue for treatment. Susan Shore, the senior author of the paper, explains that her team has confirmed that a process called stimulus-timing...

Another Paper from the Pioneers of Notched Music Therapy for Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 4, 2014

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: Notched Music Notched music therapy tinnitus

The original discoverers of Notched Music therapy have released another paper that provides an excellent theoretical overview of the conceptual underpinnings of the therapy. Rather than rehash what the authors have already done a great job of writing about, I'll post the abstract below: Over the past 15 years, we have...

Laser Therapy as a Treatment for Tinnitus?

Written by AudioNotch Team on January 2, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: laser therapy for tinnitus tinnitus review tinnitus treatment

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, because I can't postulate a mechanism for why this might work. But consider the following description of a tinnitus treatment: Subjects in the intervention group underwent laser therapy for 20 sessions, every other day, 20 minutes each session, which was a combination of...

What About Failed Drug Treatments for Tinnitus?

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Research Treatment Review

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment L-baclofen

One of the issues plaguing scientific research is the tendency to avoid publishing negative study results - i.e. if something DIDN'T work, people are far less prone to publish a scientific paper about it. That's why it's heartening to see research like this, on why L-baclofen doesn't appear to work in animal models of...

Childhood Tinnitus: What Do We Know

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 26, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: tinnitus and children

Childhood tinntius is less common than tinnitus among adults. The profile of tinnitus causes in children seems to quite different for children. For example, myoclonus seems to be a much more common cause. Reviewing the abstract doesn't reveal that much: PURPOSE: Troublesome tinnitus in children can have an impact on...

A story from an AudioNotch User

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 24, 2013

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: audionotch review seniors and tinnitus

We love to publish stories from AudioNotch users who have had their tinnitus volume reduced with AudioNotch. Here's one from a senior user of ours who asked that his name be redacted: A little history. My tinnitus came on like a loaded freight train. In one day it came on full strength, no warnings, no gradual increase...

AudioNotch Review & Success Rate Data - One Month and Two Month Surveys

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 20, 2013

Categories: Announcement AudioNotch Hearing Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: AudioNotch audionotch review audionotch success rate tinnitus treatment

For a long time, our users have asked us about the success rate of AudioNotch. And for a long time, we'd told them the truth: we don't actually have this data, because not enough people respond to our internal surveys about the efficacy of our tinnitus treatment. Basically, a small percentage of our users respond to...

Chronic Tinnitus Treated with Drug in Animals

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 19, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: chronic tinnitus NMDA receptor antagonist Tinnitus tinnitus reserach

Animal models have proven to be a fruitful avenue of research for tinnitus treatment (and I say fruitful in the sense that we've learned things - there aren't currently any tinnitus specific drugs that have made it to market for chronic tinnitus). Many of these drug treatments have focused on drugs for acute onset...

Tinnitus Increasingly Common Among Young People in the Developed World

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 17, 2013

Categories: Hearing

Tags: hearing loss hearing loss and tinnitus young people tinnitus youth and tinnitus

A study in Belgium has validated what many of us have observed - young people aren't taking care of their hearing: Annick Gilles, research audiologist at the University Hospital of Antwerp, who is doing her doctoral research about tinnitus has discovered that it is increasingly common among young people in Belgium....

Promising Early Results for Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 5, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: Tinnitus vagal nerve therapy vagal nerve therapy tinnitus

Encouraging results have been reported in a small trial of vagal nerve therapy for tinnitus : UT Dallas researchers have demonstrated that treating tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, using vagus nerve stimulation-tone therapy is safe and brought significant improvement to some of the participants in a small clinical...

Tinnitus and Psychiatry

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 14, 2013

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: tinnitus and depression tinnitus and psychiatry

Tinnitus has been associated with anxiety and depression, among other psychiatric disorders. There is a role for psychiatrists to treat tinnitus sufferers who have significant comorbid psychiatric conditions: When relief finally came for De Mong, it was not in the form of a tinnitus specialist or an ear doctor, but a...

Are Hearing Aids Useful in Managing Tinnitus in Individuals with Hearing Loss?

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 7, 2013

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: hearing aids and tinnitus

A review of the available evidence came to the conclusion that there is some evidence that hearing aids can help in the management of tinnitus, however, more research needs to be done in order to reach definitive conclusions. Hearing aids are oftentimes used in the management of tinnitus because they are Results:...

Rogert Taylor, Drummer from Queen, Learns to Cope with Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 5, 2013

Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus

Tags: Roger Taylor tinnitus

It's interesting to approach stories on tinnitus with the background knowledge of the science on the subject. The topic of habituation has proven to an important one - simply put, habituation is the process whereby the brain adapts to the tinnitus tone and stops reacting in a negative emotional way - essentially, the...

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: Tinnitus Tinnitus Research

Tags: tinnitus and neuroticism tinnitus research

A press article summarizes findings about the relationship between neuroticism and tinnitus in an accessible framework: People with 'neurotic' tendencies are more likely to be troubled by their tinnitus, a new study involving researchers at The University of Nottingham, has found. The research, led by academics at the...

Study Suggests Tinnitus Significantly Disrupts Sleeping

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 20, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags: tinnitus and insomnia tinnitus and sleep tinnitus sleep disruption

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that tinnitus causes increased sleep latency and insomnia. What's surprising to me is this recent study, which seems to suggest that tinnitus patients may suffer from disruption of multiple sleep stages, including a significant reduction in REM sleep : All tinnitus patients had a...

How good is the scientific evidence for AudioNotch? And What About Homeopathy?

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 8, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: evidence based medicine homeopathic tinnitus treatment Tinnitus tinnitus and homeopathy tinnitus treatment

Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: In Evidence Based Medicine, there exists a hierarchy of evidence. This means that the higher a particular treatment is in the hierarchy, the more likely it is to actually be effective in real life. As you go higher and higher in the...

The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association - Hamilton Branch

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 2, 2013

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus

Tags: CHHA CHHA Hamilton hard of hearing speaker Tinnitus

Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: Several months ago, AudioNotch gave a talk to the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association - Hamilton branch. The talk was a great discussion about Notched Sound Therapy, and the audience members asked thoughtful, informed questions. The...

Is There a Treatment for Tinnitus?

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 1, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: homeopathic tinnitus treatment homeopathy Quietus Tinnitus

Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: There's an excellent blog that I recommend many of you read - it's called Science Based Medicine . It's a blog advocating the use of scientific plausibility to evaluate the prior probability of a given treatment being effective, and not...

What is Octave Confusion?

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 16, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: tinnitus treatment

Brought to you by AudioNotch, the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: Some people find the instructions on our tinnitus tuner to be confusing. Consider the following paragraph, which provides instructions on how to overcome octave confusion when determining your tinnitus frequency: Please note: When you think...

Does AudioNotch Work in Your Sleep? What Headphones Should You Use?

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 15, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: AudioNotch pillow speakers sleep headphones tinnitus treatment

Brought to you by AudioNotch, the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: AudioNotch users often e-mail us wondering whether or not it would be beneficial for them to use our product during their sleep cycles. We have some positive anecdotes of this working well, however, we do not have scientific evidence of...

What Headphones Were Used in the Notched White Noise Study?

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 27, 2013

Categories: AudioNotch

We often receive requests for recommendations on specific headphones that might be used for listening to Notched Sound Therapy. The characteristics of appropriate headphones are as follows: Sufficient sound fidelity and quality Effective blocking of external noise Some individuals have asked us if Noise Cancelling...

Existing Epilepsy Drug Could Treat Acute Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 11, 2013

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus Treatment Review

Scientific research into tinnitus continues to yield fruitful results. The pathophysiology of tinnitus has been studied from many directions and conceptualized in many ways. An interested approach has been taken at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine : The team focused on an area of the brain that is home...

Drug to Treat Acute Tinnitus Moving Forward in Approval Process

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 6, 2013

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: tinnitus treatment treatment of acute tinnitus

Here at AudioNotch, we strongly believe in the promise of science for treating tinnitus. In terms of "curative" therapies - and we use the term "tinnitus cure" very carefully - a good target for pharmacological therapy is the brain shortly after the development of acute changes (before the neurological changes become...

Tinnitus but No Detectable Hearing Loss? You May Still Have Hearing Loss.

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 30, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: tinnitus research

The development of tinnitus has a strong association with hearing loss. The association is so strong that many researchers believe that hearing loss is the most common cause of tinnitus - the evidence is very strong on this point. However, some individuals have "normal" audiograms that have no detectable hearing loss...

Why Do Some People Develop Tinnitus After Hearing Loss and Others Do Not? (part 2)

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 30, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus research tinnitus treatment

A lot of people are puzzled by the fact that even though two individuals may have the same level of hearing loss, some people will develop tinnitus and others will not. This suggests that people may have different underlying levels of vulnerability to developing tinnitus. We've posted about research in the past that...

AudioNotch Launches Partnership with Zabell Hearing Centre

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 2, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: AudioNotch Tinnitus tinnitus clinic

AudioNotch is continuing to expand its Tinnitus Clinic Partnership program . In this program, patients can have the initial detection of their tinnitus frequency performed inside of a soundproof audiology room with audiology equipment. Some of our users have requested this service and we have sought to make it...

Tinnitus and Pilots: A Study Shows Increased Risk

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 18, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: aircraft hearing loss tinnitus and airline pilots tinnitus and hearing loss tinnitus and pilots

There's a great deal of noise exposure in certain lines of work. Unsurprisingly, a lot of anecdotal evidence suggests an increased risk of tinnitus among airline pilots. Pilots are routinely exposed to extremely loud noise from the function of their aircraft engines. As such, they often suffer noise induced hearing...

The Authors of the Notched White Noise Paper Are Collaborating With AudioNotch

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 17, 2013

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus

Tags: Dr. Marco Lugli Notched Natural Sounds Notched White Noise tinnitus treatment

Although AudioNotch is an independent and academically unaffiliated corporation, we're in contact with the authors of the Notched White Noise paper, which you can check out in our science section . They've given us permission to publish some of the communication that's occurred to us, some of which is relevant to...

ABC News On the Anecdotal Association Between Tinnitus and Suicide

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 4, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and depression tinnitus and suicide

For some individuals, it appears as if tinnitus can precipitate some very serious mental illnesses such as severe depression, which may unfortunately culminate in suicide : Of 9,000 patients who have come to the tinnitus clinic at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, clinic director Billy Martin said he was...

Noel Gallagher, Frontman of Oasis, Reveals He Has Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 2, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: hearing loss noel gallagher Tinnitus

Add another casualty to the list of musicians felled by tinnitus secondary to noise-induced hearing loss : Noel Gallagher has revealed that he is suffering from tinnitus, having recently being diagnosed with the condition by doctors. The condition, which is characterised by ringing in the ears in the absence of...

Cool Paper: "Homeostatic plasticity drives tinnitus perception in an animal model."

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 22, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: homeostasis neuroplasticity SCIENCE Tinnitus

Another cool paper has come out presenting animal research on the patho-physiology (abnormal physiology) that produces tinnitus. The abstract reads fairly easily: Hearing loss often results in tinnitus and auditory cortical map changes, leading to the prevailing view that the phantom perception is associated with...

More Research on Lateral Inhibition

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 19, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: lateral inhibition neuroscience Tinnitus

An interesting paper reveals a little bit more about the relationship between abnormal lateral inhibition and tinnitus. The abstract is a bit opaque : Tinnitus is likely initiated by a discontinuity in the spontaneous or low-level-stimulus induced neural activity across auditory nerve fibers with different...

Are AudioNotch's Prices Unethical?

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 14, 2013

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus

Tags: development costs price gouging Tinnitus tinnitus treatment

Here's an e-mail we received from a user who was upset about what we charge for our tinnitus treatment service: Hello, I want to know and understand why you charge so much for this treatment? I understand that developing etc. has cost you time and probably some money, but nowhere even close to what you are charging....

Why do Some People Get Tinnitus But Other People Don't?

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 12, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: protective factors against tinnitus Tinnitus tinnitus experiments

Interesting research offers a possible explanation as to why, even when exposed to the same external harmful noise stimulus, some individuals will develop tinnitus and other individuals will not. Extrapolating findings from research on animals may reveal why some people develop tinnitus while others do not. Animals...

A Comprehensive Summary of the Hypothesized Mechanism Behind Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 7, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: lateral inhibition Notched Music Therapy Notched White Noise Therapy Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy Tinnitus tinnitus research

Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy is an umbrella term that subsumes two types of Notched Sound Therapy: Notched Music Therapy (also referred to as Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy by the researchers who discovered it) Notched White Noise Therapy (also referred to as Windowed Sound Therapy by the researchers who...

The Challenges of Treating Higher Frequency Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 5, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: high frequency tinnitus Notched Music

The authors of a Notched Music Therapy study discuss why they believe that Notched Music does not work in people with a tinnitus frequency over 8,000 hZ (A.K.A. 8 khZ): An additional crucial finding was that the TMNMT efficacy depended on the tinnitus frequency. Even though we had relatively amplified high frequency...

Are AudioNotch's Effects Permanent? What the Research Says - FAQ Update

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 1, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: AudioNotch permanent Notched Music Therapy Tinnitus

While long term follow up studies have not yet been done on individuals whose tinnitus volume decreased after a completed treatment with Notched Music, the researchers who developed it have written the following: From a long term study on Notched Music Therapy conducted over several month's duration: The observed...

AudioNotch and the Potential Risk of Temporary Increases in Tinnitus Loudness

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 26, 2013

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus

Tags: AudioNotch

In rare cases, listening to Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy can temporarily increase the baseline volume of your tinnitus. Your "baseline" tinnitus volume is the volume of your tinnitus at rest with no external sound input other than ambient noise from a regular environment. There are multiple possible explanations:...

Excellent Article on Tinnitus Advocacy

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 3, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Eddy-Temple Morris, a prominent British musician, has written an excellent long form article at the Huffington Post about advocating for patients with tinnitus. Particularly heartbreaking is his story of Mark, a friend of his who developed tinnitus: Mark got tinnitus when he was 24 years old. Some of us get it worse...

Possible Total Tinnitus Cure on the Horizon

Written by AudioNotch Team on February 3, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Most individuals with tinnitus appear to have the "sensorineural" variant. In this variant of tinnitus, the symptom is caused by the following cascade of events: Noise exposure causes cochlear hearing cell death The auditory cortex is deprived of normal input from part of the hearing range A neuroplastic re-wiring...

How Much Hearing Loss is Acceptable for AudioNotch to Work?

Written by AudioNotch Team on January 5, 2013

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: hearing loss Notched White Noise

AudioNotch provides Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy . One form of this therapy is Notched White Noise. Notched White Noise has only been shown to work in individuals with less than 55 dB of hearing loss (the upper limit of moderate hearing loss). This does not necessarily mean that it cannot work in individuals with...

Study Validates AudioNotch Tinnitus Tuner

Written by AudioNotch Team on January 3, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: tinnitus pitch tinnitus pitch matching tinnitus tuner tuner

A recent study has validated the efficacy of the "sliding frequency scale" tuner that is available on our web site (for free) to assist users in detecting their tinnitus tone. The study indicated that our tuner is comparable in effectiveness to the tuning performed by an audiologist in an anechoic sound chamber. Check...

The New York Times on Tinnitus & Tinnitus "Cures"

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 28, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: cognitive behavioural therapy neuroimaging New York Times tinnitus cure

The New York Times features another blogger and her experience with tinnitus. I think in many ways, she accurately described the experience of many tinnitus sufferers in the following paragraph: Dr. Cima said in an interview that, like me, most people with tinnitus function fairly well. But for about 3 percent of...

Why Doesn't AudioNotch Use a Proprietary Device?

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 8, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: accessibility devices Tinnitus

Some of the other tinnitus sound therapy providers deliver their sound therapy via specialized, proprietary devices. In fact, their entire business model revolves around the perceived "value boost" that having a "special" proprietary device offers - the idea being that if the device is unique and expensive, then the...

"Tinnitus Cure" vs. "Tinnitus Treatment" - The difference between the two, and why it matters

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 7, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: homeopathy homeopathy tinnitus Tinnitus tinnitus cure tinnitus homeopathy tinnitus treatment

If you google the term "tinnitus cure" you'll run into a long list of treatments and remedies that are "proven" to "cure" tinnitus. The term "cure" is a loaded term - it is the strongest of all possible claims - it is a promise that a product will eliminate your tinnitus entirely . This claim is made despite the fact...

Use Music to Mask Tinnitus and Help You Concentrate for Work

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 28, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: concentration Tinnitus work music

I've heard many complaints from individuals suffering from tinnitus relating to difficulty concentrating. While Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy is useful in lowering the volume of your tinnitus - and can even have an additional effect as a "masking tool" on top of that - you may have to work for, say, ten hours a day...

Dana White Suffers From Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 22, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: dana white meniere's disease Tinnitus

Dana White, the well known president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship , is another notable public figure who suffers from Tinnitus. He suffers from tinnitus secondary to Meniere's disease, and is currently booked for a surgical treatment in 2013 : Meniere's Disease affects the inner ear and causes "spontaneous...

Famous People With Tinnitus: A Long, and Inspiring, List

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 16, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: celebrities with tinnitus famous people with tinnitus Tinnitus

Here is a link to a long list of highly accomplished individuals who suffer from Tinnitus. One of my favorites is Jean-Jacques Rousseau : From "Confessions" (1780) "...a great noise started up in my ears, a noise that was triple or rather quadruple, compounded of a low and muffled humming, a softer murmuring as though...

Famous People With Tinnitus: Barbra Streisand

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 14, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: barbra streisand concerts hearing damage music

Unsurprisingly, the prevalence of tinnitus among famous musicians who tour and perform extensively appears to be extremely high (at least anecdotally). Consider the case of Barbra Streisand - yet another victim of what appears to be noise induced hearing loss, and subsequent sensorineural tinnitus: Streisand, writes...

What's the Most Common War Injury? Hearing Loss

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 14, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: combat hearing damage IED Tinnitus VA veterans

A fascinating article on NBC shows the incredible prevalence of hearing loss and tinnitus among U.S. armed forces personnel returning from conflicts abroad: “You’ve been to a concert – you know how your ears are ringing afterward? It’s just like that my entire life,” Brogan said. “A lot of guys get home and they...

Tinnitus Treatment Research: Memantine Drug Therapy

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 7, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: memantine tinnitus treatment

An interesting new paper has shown evidence that the administration of memantine, a drug that block NMDA-type glutamate receptors , may reduce the volume of chronic tinnitus. The research was performed in animals, although tinnitus response was measured by an indirect correlate (tinnitus-associated behaviour). Click...

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...

The New York Times on Notched Music Therapy

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 5, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: New York Times Notched Music Therapy notched sound therapy press coverage

The New York Times wrote a brief article on Notched Music Therapy when some of the earlier research was published several years ago. Click here to check it out! In fact, there's a great explanatory paragraph on the mechanism underlying the therapy: The researchers suggest that two things might be happening in the...

Stem Cells as a Tinnitus Treatment?

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 5, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment 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...

Tinnitus Frequency Detection - Science Provides Some Tips

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 30, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus pitch matching tinnitus tuner

There's a great deal of interesting research on tinnitus pitch matching - a term synonymous with tinnitus pitch detection, or "tinnitus tuning." An important paper we'd like to bring to the attention of AudioNotch users is entitled " Comparison of manual and computer-automated procedures for tinnitus pitch-matching ."...

Detecting Your Tinnitus Tone: Scientific Research

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 30, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus pitch matching

There are multiple methods available for detecting a user's tinnitus tone. Detecting a user's tinnitus tone can be done manually, with computer-aided guidance, or even with the aid of an audiologist in a sound booth in select audiology clinics. This particular study compared three alternative methods: The most...

Andy Techie Endorses AudioNotch

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 24, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: Andy Techie testimonials

Andy Techie is an avid music fan and runs " The Audio Blog ": Music from around the hood..All heard in and around Ditmas Park Brooklyn, NYC and recorded live! On his blog, he hosts a radio show, and one of the topics he has discussed on his radio show is tinnitus . Andy has had a very positive experience with...

AudioNotch Review: Some of Our Positive Testimonials

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 24, 2012

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: AudioNotch audionotch review tinnitust treatment

Although we think the scientific experiments conducted are the best evidence for the efficacy of AudioNotch, we understand that prospective customers like to see testimonials from people who have experienced a therapeutic benefit. A couple are listed as follows: Audio Notch helped me with my tinnitus, It has a lot a...

Controversy About Un-Notched White Noise in Tinnitus Treatment

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 19, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: cochrane review Tinnitus tinnitus masking therapy white noise

There's been a great deal of controversy about the actual utility of tinnitus maskers as a treatment for tinnitus (not as a mere coping aid, which is basically a completely subjective, non-scientific term. Our tinnitus masker is intended only for use as a coping aid). So what do you when you have conflicting evidence...

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...

Why You Need to Periodically Re-Tune (Redetermine) Your Tinnitus Frequency

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Recently a user e-mailed us with a question. Paraphrasing, it was as follows: I've been using Notched Sound Therapy for 3 weeks. Although I've experienced a therapeutic benefit, I've noticed that at the beginning, my tinnitus frequency was 13,000 hZ - and now it's about 15,000 hZ. Should I be concerned about this...

How to Prove that We are Providing a Notched Product

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: frequency re-tuning Tinnitus

Recently, we received a surprising e-mail from one of our users. To our shock and dismay - she indicated that she suspected that we had not actually been providing a correctly notched product. Of course, we take any concerns about our integrity extremely seriously. Therefore, we've provided a handy step-by-step guide...

The Importance of Hope

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 12, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: hope Tinnitus

It's not surprising that tinnitus can trigger or induce depression. There are many anecdotal reports of the onset of depression following the acquisition of tinnitus, and multiple studies show an association between the two - although it is not necessarily clear which way the causality lies. There are even tragic...

Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus Treatment

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 8, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus Treatment Review

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment

An exciting new avenue for research is Vagal Nerve Stimulation ( click here to see a wikipedia article on the Vagus Nerve). Consider the following: In another paper in the journal Experimental Neurology , Kilgard led a team that paired vagus nerve stimulation with audio tones of varying speeds to alter the rate of...

Veterans and Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 6, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: combat ear protection hearing loss Tinnitus veterans

Veterans, given their increased exposure noise-induced hearing damage, are at a significantly increased risk of developing tinnitus. Common exposure risks are typically explosions and gunfire. Being in the vicinity of warzone entails exposure to a variety of risks. Fortunately, various measures are oftentimes taken in...

The Dangers of Concerts Without Earplugs

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: concerts earplugs hearing loss Justin Bieber justin biever Tinnitus

A lot of people might dismiss this story as farcical, even ridiculous. A lot of criticism has been levied at the the prevalence of spurious litigation in the American court system. That said, there's little doubt in my mind that this woman's story is true : An Oregon woman has filed a $9.2 million lawsuit against pop...

Pink Noise Enhances Quality of Sleep

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: sleep sound processing

New research indicates that listening to pink noise from a pair of computer speakers can enhance the quality of your sleep. Sound waves are still processed by the brain during a person's sleep: To see how pink noise would affect human sleepers, Zhang and his team recruited 50 people and exposed them to either pink...

New Evidence That Headphones Can Cause Hearing Loss

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012

Categories: Hearing Tinnitus

Tags: hearing loss Tinnitus

One of the most insidious forms of hearing loss occurs through what appear to be relatively benign objects: headphones. Headphones, when playing music with a high enough volume, can cause noise induced hearing loss. It's particularly concerning given that people use headphones on a regular basis. Youth in particular...

Does AudioNotch Work For Meniere's Disease?

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 20, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: meniere's disease Tinnitus

Multiple people have asked us whether or not AudioNotch will work with individuals who suffer from tinnitus that is caused by Meniere's disease. UFC president Dana White is a notable celebrity who suffers from this illness. Wikipedia states : Ménière's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that can affect hearing and...

Blogging User Questions: A Cavalcade of Queries!

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 20, 2012

Categories: Announcement

Tags: questions

Hi Jagg, Thanks for your questions! How close to accurate must i be in judging my tinnitus tone on the slider? i know "as close as possible" obviously, but as i am not an audio scientist, i really don't know if "close enough" means within 5 kHz or 50 or 500. To determine the margin of error, check out this post:...

Blogging User Questions: Credibility

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 15, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: credibility fda Tinnitus

A user of ours has sent the following e-mail, voicing her reasons for skepticism about the efficacy of AudioNotch. Verbatim (with her identity removed), her e-mail reads as follows: I have had tinnitus for nearly twenty years and have spent much money trying various remedies. It appears to me that money is more...

AudioNotch Profiled in the McMaster Silhouette

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 10, 2012

Categories: Announcement Tinnitus

Tags: press Tinnitus

Hi all, We're pleased to announce that AudioNotch has been profiled in the McMaster Silhouette ! You’re at a rock concert, listening to your favourite musician rip a guitar solo, or at a crowded nightclub, fist pumping to a blaring techno pop song. When you eventually leave, on top of fun memories (or lack thereof),...

Free Tinnitus Masker

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 30, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: free software Tinnitus tinnitus masker

When I first developed tinnitus, I struggled tremendously. Being enrolled in a taxing educational program like Medical School didn't help. In particular, it was extremely difficult to sleep - the noise of tinnitus prevented me from falling asleep in a timely manner. One thing that helped me was the usage of tinnitus...