The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
Interesting PBS Interview with US Veteran with Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2013
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: tinnitus veterans
Give it a read and check it out! The pathway for veterans developing tinnitus is relatively simple: exposure to environmental noise from explosions, gunfire - even engines - damages their hearing and causes tinnitus. But Jarom has found one hill he cannot conquer: the incessant ringing in his ears. It's called tinnitus...
Are Hearing Aids Useful in Managing Tinnitus in Individuals with Hearing Loss?
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 7, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: hearing aids and tinnitus
A review of the available evidence came to the conclusion that there is some evidence that hearing aids can help in the management of tinnitus, however, more research needs to be done in order to reach definitive conclusions. Hearing aids are oftentimes used in the management of tinnitus because they are Results:...
Rogert Taylor, Drummer from Queen, Learns to Cope with Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 5, 2013
Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus
Tags: Roger Taylor tinnitus
It's interesting to approach stories on tinnitus with the background knowledge of the science on the subject. The topic of habituation has proven to an important one - simply put, habituation is the process whereby the brain adapts to the tinnitus tone and stops reacting in a negative emotional way - essentially, the...
Tinnitus Treatment and Fraud
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 31, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: tinnitus deception tinnitus fraud
Anyone passingly familiar with the tinnitus treatment space knows that there is a high prevalence of treatments that are not based on scientific evidence, or are simply outright frauds. This high prevalence of bogus treatments is attributable to the fact there there is no present tinnitus cure, and fraudsters attempt...
rTMS for Tinnitus: A Discouraging Study
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 29, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: rTMS rTMS tinnitus treatment transcranial magnetic stimulation tinnitus
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a treatment that has been tested for tinnitus. There has been some promising literature with guided rTMS in the past. In the procedure, a magnet is used to modify neurons non-invasively, by holding it over a patient's head. The technology has been used to treat...
Tinnitus and Neuroticism, Part 2
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus and neuroticism tinnitus research
We've posted on a similar tinnitus study in the past linking neuroticism as a personality trait to tinnitus . Now, a new press article summarizes some of the findings in a more accessible framework: People with 'neurotic' tendencies are more likely to be troubled by their tinnitus, a new study involving researchers at...
Awesome UI Suggestions from Our Users
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus software UI UI
A user of ours, Scott Lauder, has a background in UI design. He sent us some great feedback, along with a UI wireframe mockup, of how we could further improve our tuner application. Thanks Scott! Today as I was using the "find your tone" interface, I found myself not completely confident of the tone I was locking in...
New Guest Article on DJ Tech Tools about Tinnitus Treatments
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 25, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
AudioNotch has written a guest article on the DJ Tech Tools blog about tinnitus treatments. Check it out!
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...
Company Researching Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Acquires
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 17, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: Tinnitus vagal nerve therapy
Some individuals are fairly excited about the new research being done on Vagal Nerve Therapy . My current understanding is that this involves playing paired auditory tones with vagal nerve stimulation, in an effort to reverse the neuroplastic changes that occur from tinnitus. This firm has released a press release...