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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...