The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
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: 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...
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: 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...