The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
Successful People With Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus
Tags: successful people with tinnitus
Can you be successful and have a debilitating medical illness like tinnitus? Yes, absolutely. There are ways of coping with tinnitus that will allow you to focus and concentrate. If you want to feel inspired, check out this visual list of people who've attained great success, despite having tinnitus. A few of the more...
Is Tinnitus under-appreciated by the Canadian Military?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus veteran veteran tinnitus
A sad case of a veteran unable to acquire effective treatment for his tinnitus: The couple has tried desperately to get help for tinnitus, which is treatable. Back in 2008, Veterans Affairs’ own medical examiner acknowledged that Rainville has tinnitus, and since then, they have been fighting for funding for...
MDMA as Tinnitus Treatment?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: MDMA tinnitus MDMA tinnitus treatment
Not recommended, but interesting nonetheless: An illegal party drug could hold the answer tinnitus sufferers have long been waiting to hear. This week, an international conference devotes three days of expert discussion to tinnitus research, a condition which causes a constant and long-term ringing within the ear drum....
AudioNotch User Review: An example of when it didn't work out
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 4, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: tinnitus treatment user review
Below, I've reproduced a e-mail from one of our users. This user provided some really good feedback and I wanted the chance to discuss it. It's important for us to stress that we don't have a 100% success rate. Anyone who makes ridiculous claims like that is selling you snake oil. Below is an example of a user who...
What if one has have multiple tinnitus tones?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 1, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
If one has multiple tinnitus tones, you can match them as needed. However, our software was only designed to treat one tinnitus tone at a time. If you want, it’s possible to make a track with multiple notches. Let’s say you have two tinnitus tones t1 and t2 at two different frequencies, f1 and f2. To create a Notched...
Barbra Streisand and Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 22, 2014
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: barbra streisand barbra streisand and tinnitus tinnitusb
Here's an interview where Barbra Streisand talks about her tinnitus: There's something important about this anecdote: Streisand acquired tinnitus years before her singing career, and despite that, became tremendously successful. This isn't to disparage the very real, and individually variable suffering of tinnitus...
The trouble with anecdotes: Desensitisation therapy for tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 22, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus desenstitation therapy
The trouble with anecdotes is that you can use them to prove anything. As in, literally - anything. The scientific method came out of the realization that proving causality (i.e. A causes B ) couldn't be done from anecdotes alone. Teasing out the causality from a single linear sequence of events is logically...