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Sound Therapy Music
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 3, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: Notched Music notched sound therapy Sound Therapy Music
Is there such a thing as Sound Therapy Music for tinnitus? The term can be used interchangeably with "Notched Music," "Notched Music Therapy," and other terms. Originally discovered by Christo Pantev's German lab, other experiments have shown efficacy with Notching other sounds as well, such as white noise. To read...
TMS Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 27, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: rTMS tinnitus and TMS TMS Tinnitus
TMS, as it is colloquially referred to (or Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which is the proper term) has recently been investigated as a possible treatment avenue for tinnitus. A lot patients get excited about TMS & tinnitus, but the results have not been good. People are attracted to TMS because it's...
Tinnitus Treatment NYU
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 18, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: acupuncture tinnitus natural tinnitus treatments NYU Langone Medical Center tinnitus treatment nyu
Lots of patients in the New York area search for tinnitus treatment available at NYU. The NYU Langone Medical Center has a series of helpful articles for people searching for "tinnitus treatment NYU" that I'll offer some brief recaps below for: NYU's medical center on homeopathic treatments for tinnitus: A 12-week,...
DJ Paul Oakenfeld Urges Hearing Protection
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 18, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusUncategorized
Tags: paul oakenfeld Tinnitus tinnitus paul oakenfeld
If you know anything about electronic music, you'll know that Paul Oakenfeld is a huge name. One of the bigger DJ's from the 90's, he was one of the predecessors to the new Electronic Dance Music trend that's risen in recent popularity. As with any concert venue, the noise levels at such performances are always unsafe....
Doctors and Tinnitus Treatment Options
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 11, 2014
Categories: AnnouncementTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus treatment options
Based on the anecdotes I've received from a lot of AudioNotch users, I've come to believe that many physicians are not very well versed in the treatment options available for tinnitus and the level of research behind them. Consider the following response to a patient's query on a popular "Ask the Doctor" column: Dear...
More on the Michigan Research
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 6, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: dorsal cochlear nucleus tinnitus
There's a fantastic article available that provides a great overview of the research that's coming out of Michigan. This research is exciting because it offers a possible avenue for treatment. Susan Shore, the senior author of the paper, explains that her team has confirmed that a process called stimulus-timing...
Another Paper from the Pioneers of Notched Music Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 4, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Notched Music Notched music therapy tinnitus
The original discoverers of Notched Music therapy have released another paper that provides an excellent theoretical overview of the conceptual underpinnings of the therapy. Rather than rehash what the authors have already done a great job of writing about, I'll post the abstract below: Over the past 15 years, we have...
Laser Therapy as a Treatment for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 2, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: laser therapy for tinnitus tinnitus review tinnitus treatment
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, because I can't postulate a mechanism for why this might work. But consider the following description of a tinnitus treatment: Subjects in the intervention group underwent laser therapy for 20 sessions, every other day, 20 minutes each session, which was a combination of...
What About Failed Drug Treatments for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment L-baclofen
One of the issues plaguing scientific research is the tendency to avoid publishing negative study results - i.e. if something DIDN'T work, people are far less prone to publish a scientific paper about it. That's why it's heartening to see research like this, on why L-baclofen doesn't appear to work in animal models of...
Childhood Tinnitus: What Do We Know
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 26, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: tinnitus and children
Childhood tinntius is less common than tinnitus among adults. The profile of tinnitus causes in children seems to quite different for children. For example, myoclonus seems to be a much more common cause. Reviewing the abstract doesn't reveal that much: PURPOSE: Troublesome tinnitus in children can have an impact on...