The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
Famous People Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 16, 2014
Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus
Tags: famous people tinnitus
What are Symptoms of Tinnitus? Tinnitus is an unusual health condition that physicians do not completely understand. In addition to affecting ordinary everyday people, there are famous people tinnitus sufferers attempting to cope with the strange symptoms. Patients visiting physicians or audiologists describe hearing...
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...
Musical tonnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 27, 2014
Categories: AudioNotch
Tags: musical tonnitus
From the British Tinnitus Association, an interesting review of Musical Hallucinations - otherwise known as musical tinnitus: What is musical hallucination? Musical hallucination (MH) is the experience of hearing music when none is being played. Hearing sound that no-one else can hear is quite common, but the...
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...
Tinnitus may only be curable in an initial 6 week window
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: furosemide tinnitus
New research on animal models indicates that a commonly used drug, Furosemide, may be effective in treating tinnitus: Six-week treatment window Mulders’ research suggests furosemide is only therapeutically effective in the first six weeks after hearing loss, when auditory neurons appear hyper-excitable. “There is...
AudioNotch Testimonial
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: AudioNotchTreatment Review
Tags: audionotch testimonial
A user by the name of Anthony sent us this e-mail recently: Hi all, just want you to know that I have been treating (listening) to your notched white noise now for about 13 months, its only been in the last month that I am having more than 1 T free day a week, in the last 2 weeks Im experiencing 2-3-4 days in a row...
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...
TMS Treatment Blog
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation rTMS TMS Tinnitus TMS Treatment blog transcranial magnetic stimulation
The subject of TMS as a treatment for tinnitus has come up multiple times on the AudioNotch blog. Despite promising early small scale studies, we've repeatedly reviewed evidence that indicates that TransCranial Magnetic Stimulation is an ineffective treatment for tinnitus: Tinnitus Research: rTMS rTMS for Tinnitus: the...