The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog


Tinnitus Increasingly Common Among Young People in the Developed World

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 17, 2013

Categories: Hearing

Tags:  hearing loss hearing loss and tinnitus young people tinnitus youth and tinnitus


A study in Belgium has validated what many of us have observed - young people aren't taking care of their hearing: Annick Gilles, research audiologist at the University Hospital of Antwerp, who is doing her doctoral research about tinnitus has discovered that it is increasingly common among young people in Belgium....

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Promising Early Results for Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 5, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus Research

Tags:  Tinnitus vagal nerve therapy vagal nerve therapy tinnitus


Encouraging results have been reported in a small trial of vagal nerve therapy for tinnitus : UT Dallas researchers have demonstrated that treating tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, using vagus nerve stimulation-tone therapy is safe and brought significant improvement to some of the participants in a small clinical...

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Tinnitus and Psychiatry

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 14, 2013

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags:  tinnitus and depression tinnitus and psychiatry


Tinnitus has been associated with anxiety and depression, among other psychiatric disorders. There is a role for psychiatrists to treat tinnitus sufferers who have significant comorbid psychiatric conditions: When relief finally came for De Mong, it was not in the form of a tinnitus specialist or an ear doctor, but a...

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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:...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Tinnitus and Neuroticism, Part 2

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research

Tags:  tinnitus and neuroticism tinnitus research


A press article summarizes findings about the relationship between neuroticism and tinnitus in an accessible framework: People with 'neurotic' tendencies are more likely to be troubled by their tinnitus, a new study involving researchers at The University of Nottingham, has found. The research, led by academics at the...

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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...

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How good is the scientific evidence for AudioNotch? And What About Homeopathy?

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 8, 2013

Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review

Tags:  evidence based medicine homeopathic tinnitus treatment Tinnitus tinnitus and homeopathy tinnitus treatment


Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: In Evidence Based Medicine, there exists a hierarchy of evidence. This means that the higher a particular treatment is in the hierarchy, the more likely it is to actually be effective in real life. As you go higher and higher in the...

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