Category: Tinnitus
Tinnitus and tinnitus-related news, research, and information
122 posts in this category
AudioNotch Went Through a Randomized Controlled Trial. Here's What Happened.
Written by Adrian Green on July 16, 2026
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: notched sound therapy tinnitus research clinical trial audionotch
Northwell Health researchers randomized 65 tinnitus patients to AudioNotch or standard care and followed them for a year. The results, the caveats, and what they actually mean, with the full citation trail.
Ranked: Sound Therapies for Tinnitus
Written by Adrian Green on March 17, 2026
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus TreatmentTinnitus Research
Tags: sound therapy notched sound therapy tinnitus research tinnitus treatment
An honest, evidence-based ranking of every major sound therapy for tinnitus -- from CBT and hearing aids to notched sound therapy, bimodal neuromodulation, TRT, and more. What works, what might work, and what probably doesn't.
How Sound Retrains the Tinnitus Brain: The Neuroscience of Neuroplasticity-Based Therapy
Written by Adrian Green on February 23, 2026
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus Treatment
Tags: neuroplasticity tinnitus research notched sound therapy sound therapy
If tinnitus is created by the brain rewiring itself, can we fix it by rewiring the brain back? Two decades of research into neuroplasticity-based sound therapy -- from notched sound to bimodal neuromodulation -- are starting to provide answers.
Brain Training Outperforms Talk Therapy for Tinnitus: What a New Clinical Trial Found
Written by Adrian Green on February 18, 2026
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus Treatment
Tags: tinnitus research neurofeedback fmri cbt
A clinical trial found that real-time fMRI neurofeedback - where patients learn to control their own brain activity - reduced tinnitus distress significantly more than cognitive behavioral therapy, with benefits that kept growing over 12 months.
Harvard Researchers Discover Objective Biomarkers for Tinnitus
Written by Adrian Green on January 6, 2026
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus research biomarkers harvard
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear have identified objective, measurable biomarkers for tinnitus severity - and the implications for treatment development could be significant.
Testimonial from a new AudioNotch user
Written by Adrian Green on June 30, 2020
Categories: AudioNotchTinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: audionotch testimonial
We're always happy to get feedback from our users! Here's a recent email that we got from a happy user: No questions but I do need to tell you this, I thought I was going to go insane with Tinnitus, have tried numerous "low cost" initiatives in the hope it would abate on it's own. Well it hasn't and it won't but since...
The Definitive Guide To Detecting Your Tinnitus Frequency
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 1, 2019
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
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: DoctorTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus 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: 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...
Evidence for Notched Sound Therapy: Does it Actually Lower Tinnitus Volume?
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 9, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment 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:...
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...
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...
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...
Pilots With Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 17, 2015
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus 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....
Is there evidence that caffeine can reduce tinnitus volume?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus 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: TinnitusTreatment 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....
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...
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...
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...
Is Tinnitus under-appreciated by the Canadian Military?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment 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: TinnitusTreatment 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....
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...
The trouble with anecdotes: Desensitisation therapy for tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 22, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment 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 TinnitusTinnitus
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,...
Lidocaine Patch Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus 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: TinnitusTinnitus 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: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment 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...
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: TinnitusTinnitus 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: TinnitusTinnitus 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...
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...
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,...
TMS Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 27, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment 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...
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....
More on the Michigan Research
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 6, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus 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: 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...
Chronic Tinnitus Treated with Drug in Animals
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 19, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus 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 and Neuroticism, Part 2
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus 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...
How good is the scientific evidence for AudioNotch? And What About Homeopathy?
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 8, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment 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: AnnouncementTinnitus
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: TinnitusTreatment 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: TinnitusTreatment 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...
Existing Epilepsy Drug Could Treat Acute Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 11, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitusTreatment 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: AnnouncementTinnitusTreatment 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
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: AnnouncementTinnitus
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
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...
Are AudioNotch's Prices Unethical?
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 14, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
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
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: AnnouncementTinnitus
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
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...
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
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
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...
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: TinnitusTreatment 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: TinnitusTreatment 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: TinnitusTreatment 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...
Controversy About Un-Notched White Noise in Tinnitus Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 19, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment 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
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: TinnitusTreatment 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
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...
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
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...
How much does Tinnitus Retraining Therapy cost?
Written by Adrian Green on July 26, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) is a tinnitus treatment that seeks to help people cope with their tinnitus through habituation. It was first proposed in 1993, making it much older than notched sound therapy, which was proposed in 2009. So how much does tinnitus retraining therapy cost? That depends on the clinic that...
How much does Neuromonics cost?
Written by Adrian Green on July 26, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
One thing that we get asked a lot at AudioNotch is: are we like Neuromonics? AudioNotch is different from Neuromonics in several ways. We use notched sound therapy, which is a new form of tinnitus treatment, and is based on completely different principles. We also charge a lot less than Neuromonics. How much does...
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: 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: AnnouncementTinnitus
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...
Tinnitus and Insomnia
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Anyone with tinnitus can tell you that it's hard to sleep with a loud noise going off inside your head. The ringing in your ears isn't exactly conducive to falling unconscious. Many individuals feel the need to turn to fans or other masking noises in order to fall asleep. Confirming these anecdotal reports, researchers...
Evidence that Tinnitus Negatively Affects Cognition
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: attention cognition Tinnitus
Imagine you're writing an exam. You're concentrating heavily on the material, weighing different variables in your mind, balancing equations, and remembering facts from 2:30 AM (which was six hours ago). Suddenly, a fire alarm goes off, and doesn't stop screeching. It cuts into your ears, and the examiner looks at you....
Chris Martin Suffers from Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Coldplay concerts hearing damage hearing loss Tinnitus
Add another one to the long list of musicians who've developed tinnitus from loud noise exposure. Chris Martin has tinnitus : 'I’ve had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn’t got any worse – touch wood. ‘But I wish I’d thought about it earlier. 'Now [the band] always use moulded...
The Association Between Tinnitus and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: PTSD soldiers Tinnitus veterans
Here is a link to an interesting abstract drawing a link between Tinnitus and PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Researchers observed an interesting set of similarities between the way tinnitus and PTSD affect the auditory system: Similarities between the way PTSD and tinnitus influence auditory behaviors include...
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...
Stress and Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
The relationship between stress and tinnitus is an interesting one. The association between tinnitus and anxiety has been well documented. Certainly, this association appears to be causative, given the anecdotal evidence that chronic tinnitus creates a subjective perception of anxiety. In one of several studies that...
Causes of Pulsatile Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
In an earlier post, we discussed the importance of determining whether or not your tinnitus is pulsatile, since pulsatile variants may be more amenable to successful treatment and cure. Here is a link to another article on pulsatile tinnitus (it's a journal article, so you may have difficulty accessing the paper and...
Pulsatile (Pulsating) Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Do you have pulsatile tinnitus? Pulsatile tinnitus is a form of tinnitus that results in a subjectively experienced, rhythmic tinnitus perception that is synchronous with your heartbeat. In order to determine whether your rhythmic tinnitus is truly pulsatile (that is, the tone occurs with every beat of your heart),...
Tips for Managing Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
The American Tinnitus Association is a reputable, non-profit organization that advocates for tinnitus sufferers. A great deal of internet resources on the subject of tinnitus are written by individuals with a commercial interest in tinnitus treatment (such as this blog, for example), and as such, are not a perfectly...
SSRI's As Tinnitus Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
In patients who suffer from both tinnitus and depression, there is data indicating that a class of medications called "Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors" (SSRI's) are an effective treatment for both tinnitus and depression. That is to say, there is evidence that tinnitus severity and mood disorder symptoms of...
Tinnitus and Depression
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
The subject of tinnitus and depression is one that is often overlooked by portrayals of the illness in mass media. The correlation between tinnitus and mood disorders such as depression is well established. Presumably, in some patients, there is a causal link between the permanence of the tinnitus tone and the...
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...
Blogging User Questions: Part 1
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
John Asks: What do you mean by the following instructions on the tuner page? Please note: When you think you have found your tone, check the frequency that is half it, and double it, as these may sound very similar due to a phenomenon known as octave confusion. Pick the one that closest matches your tone. The reason...
Tinnitus Research Paper: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: rTMS tinnitus treatment
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy (also known as rTMS) is a relatively new technology that has been used to treat a variety of brain based disorders, such as depression. It involves using a device to magnetically stimulate the brain non-invasively. Here is a link to an abstract of a paper that found...
Tinnitus Treatment Paper: Lidocaine
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: lidocaine Tinnitus tinnitus treatment
Here is a link to an abstract on a paper about the effects of Lidocaine on tinnitus. Lidocaine is a medication that is used as a local anesthetic and an anti-arrhythmic agent (suppressing cardiac arrhythmia) . Via brain imaging, it was found to produce both increases and decreases in the loudness of tinnitus. This...
Tinnitus Treatment Paper: Gingko Biloba
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: gingko biloba Tinnitus
Gingko Biloba. Is it a natural cure for tinnitus? A double blind, randomized controlled trial is considered the gold standard in experimental design and the best way to determine if true causation is present (i.e. whether or not a real treatment effect is seen with a given therapy, in a medical context). This type of...
Testimonials Aren't Enough: Correlation Vs. Causation
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Testimonials have a long a storied history in the world of marketing. Indeed, you'll note that we display one on our landing page. For a variety of consumer products - say, for example, a type of cleaning agent - testimonials might be enough. They might sway you to make a purchase. However, in the field of medical...
Tinnitus Treatment Review: Homeoapthy
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 10, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Homepathic Cure. Tinnitus Treatment. Natural Remedy. These are the keywords that people are searching for when they're looking for tinnitus treatment online, and it's unfortunate. A great deal of tinnitus sufferers are desperate for any type of effective treatment. They're willing to try multiple therapeutic options in...
Tinnitus and Meditation
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and meditation
I make an effort to meditate daily for a variety of health reasons. Meditation has been shown to yield structural changes in the brain that help us to deal with stress and to improve our emotional regulation. There's a movement sweeping across North America right now which is advocating mindfulness meditation, a...
AudioNotch is a Treatment, Not a Cure
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
If you look around our web site and read our in-depth F.A.Q., you'll notice that we're very careful not to market ourselves as a tinnitus cure . Be extremely skeptical of anyone marketing themselves as such, since the threshold of evidence that one needs to meet in order to describe something as a cure is very high. As...
Tinnitus: The Volume Matters
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
It's difficult to explain the suffering caused by tinnitus to someone who doesn't have it. In fact, many people suffer from a mild form of the illness, in which they can hear a faint ringing in silence (indeed, the prevalence of tinnitus in total silence is much higher than in the context of ambient noise). It's...