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Chronic Tinnitus Treated with Drug in Animals

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 19, 2013


Animal models have proven to be a fruitful avenue of research for tinnitus treatment (and I say fruitful in the sense that we’ve learned things – there aren’t currently any tinnitus specific drugs that have made it to market for chronic tinnitus). Many of these drug treatments have focused on drugs for acute onset tinnitus – basically, anything that is protective to the sound detecting cells in the inner ear. The military has trialed N-acetylcysteine in humans, for example.

However, drug therapies for chronic tinnitus are harder to come by. That’s why research that looks for such agents is so … Continue Reading