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What About Failed Drug Treatments for Tinnitus?
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 tinnitus:
Subjective tinnitus is a chronic neurological disorder in which phantom sounds are perceived. Recent evidence supports the hypothesis that tinnitus is related to neuronal hyperactivity in auditory brain regions, and consequently drugs that increase GABAergic neurotransmission in the CNS, such as the GABAB receptor agonist L-baclofen, may … Continue Reading