Tag: tinnitus research

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Tinnitus Link Roundup

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 25, 2017

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Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. Here's some interesting links about tinnitus and tinnitus-related news: Resident Advisor, a web site for DJ's, has written a...

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Can an old drug (D-cycloserine) reduce the cognitive side effects of tinnitus?

Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research

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Extremely interesting new research indicates that some tinnitus patients found a subjective improvement in their cognition when they took D-cycloserine: People with tinnitus perceive ringing in their ears and this phantom noise can cause difficulty concentrating. A new noise doesn’t make the perceived noise go away—but...

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AM-101 Tinnitus Results

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 23, 2014

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research

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Some of you may be aware of a new drug in development for the treatment of acute tinnitus acquired due to noise trauma. Noise trauma actually kills inner ear hair cells not via direct physical trauma, but via excitotoxicity from an increase in glutamate neurotransmitters. The AM-101 drug is designed to specifically...

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Tinnitus Treatment 2014

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 25, 2014

Categories: Tinnitus Research

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What are the tinnitus treatment options that are promising right now? It's difficult to assess research findings before extensive clinical trials have come out, but I can point towards some areas of research in tinnitus treatment that are promising in 2014: I've blogged about them before: New U of M Study Offers...

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New U of M Study Offers Promise in Developing Therapy for Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on January 7, 2014

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review

Tags: neuroplasticity research Tinnitus tinnitus developments tinnitus research


Fascinating research from the University of Michigan has illuminated some amazing new results: She explains that in tinnitus, some of the input to the brain from the ear’s cochlea is reduced, while signals from the somatosensory nerves of the face and neck, related to touch, are excessively amplified. “It’s as if the...

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Tinnitus and Neuroticism, Part 2

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 2, 2013

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research

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We've posted on a similar tinnitus study in the past linking neuroticism as a personality trait to tinnitus . Now, a new press article summarizes some of the findings in a more accessible framework: People with 'neurotic' tendencies are more likely to be troubled by their tinnitus, a new study involving researchers at...

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Tinnitus but No Detectable Hearing Loss? You May Still Have Hearing Loss.

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 30, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

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The development of tinnitus has a strong association with hearing loss. The association is so strong that many researchers believe that hearing loss is the most common cause of tinnitus - the evidence is very strong on this point. However, some individuals have "normal" audiograms that have no detectable hearing loss...

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Why Do Some People Develop Tinnitus After Hearing Loss and Others Do Not? (part 2)

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 30, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus research tinnitus treatment


A lot of people are puzzled by the fact that even though two individuals may have the same level of hearing loss, some people will develop tinnitus and others will not. This suggests that people may have different underlying levels of vulnerability to developing tinnitus. We've posted about research in the past that...

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A Comprehensive Summary of the Hypothesized Mechanism Behind Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 7, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: lateral inhibition Notched Music Therapy Notched White Noise Therapy Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy Tinnitus tinnitus research


Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy is an umbrella term that subsumes two types of Notched Sound Therapy: Notched Music Therapy (also referred to as Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy by the researchers who discovered it) Notched White Noise Therapy (also referred to as Windowed Sound Therapy by the researchers who...

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