The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...