The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

Imagine you’re writing an exam. You’re concentrating heavily on the material, weighing different variables in your mind, balancing equations, and remembering facts from 2:30 AM (which was six hours ago). Suddenly, a fire alarm goes off, and doesn’t stop screeching. It cuts into your ears, and the examiner looks at you.

“Thirty minutes left.”

You try to complete the test, but it’s difficult – the loud sound persists, distracting you, consuming valuable cognitive resources, wasting attention, sapping focus.
This is what it’s like to think with tinnitus. Indeed, many patients afflicted with tinnitus often comment on how they “hate quiet rooms” and have … Continue Reading