Category: Hearing
Any issues with hearing or hearing loss related illnesses.
23 posts in this category
Zinc Deficiency And Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 9, 2017
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus TreatmentTreatment ReviewZincZinc 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...
DJ Paul Oakenfeld Urges Hearing Protection
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 18, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusUncategorized
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....
Another Paper from the Pioneers of Notched Music Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 4, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment 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...
AudioNotch Review & Success Rate Data - One Month and Two Month Surveys
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 20, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementAudioNotchHearingTinnitusTreatment 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...
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....
Tinnitus and Pilots: A Study Shows Increased Risk
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 18, 2013
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...
ABC News On the Anecdotal Association Between Tinnitus and Suicide
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 4, 2013
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
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
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
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...
Why do Some People Get Tinnitus But Other People Don't?
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 12, 2013
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...
Possible Total Tinnitus Cure on the Horizon
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 3, 2013
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
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...
Why Doesn't AudioNotch Use a Proprietary Device?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 8, 2012
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...
Use Music to Mask Tinnitus and Help You Concentrate for Work
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 28, 2012
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
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
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
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...
Veterans and Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 6, 2012
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
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...
New Evidence That Headphones Can Cause Hearing Loss
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012
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...
Celebrities and Famous People with Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
From time to time, it's helpful to look to others for inspiration when we're having difficulty coping with our tinnitus. Throughout history, many individuals have been afflicted with this condition, and although it poses severe challenges in going about daily life, they can be overcome. You'll note that many of these...
Blogging User Questions: Part 3 - How Loud Should I Listen to Notched Sound Therapy?
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Jerry Asks: How loud should the volume at which I listen to Notched White Noise be? I want to treat my tinnitus effectively, without causing more hearing loss. As far as listening volume, according to the research we've looked at, you should try and listen to the therapy at a level approximately equal to your tinnitus...