Tag: Tinnitus
52 posts with this tag
Tinnitus and Ketamine
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 30, 2018
Categories: DoctorTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus Treatment
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and depression tinnitus cure tinnitus treatment
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. With one in five Americans suffering from chronic ringing in the ears, better known as tinnitus, there's no doubt this is a...
Pilots With Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 17, 2015
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: pilots pilots and tinnitus Tinnitus
The noise and constant vibrations that are associated with air travel can take its toll on those who fly for a living. Pilots with tinnitus are very common. Pilots are one of the most notorious sufferers of ringing in the ears, a condition that is medically referred to as tinnitus. This condition is at best annoying....
And then it rained
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 13, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: personal story Tinnitus
When I was 22 years old, I went out with some friends to a nightclub. I was in my first year of medical school. Like most people my age, I wasn't concerned with noise trauma (despite being a medical student). The next day, I noticed the ringing in my ears wasn't gone. I started to research tinnitus. I became panicked -...
Residual Inhibition for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 10, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: residual inhibition tinnitus Tinnitus
Some of our users have noticed that listening to their tinnitus frequency using our tinnitus tuner, and then turning the computer generate sound off, can result in a temporary reduction in their tinnitus tone. This is a known phenomenon that has been studied and is known as residual inhibition. To read more about this...
Buy AM 101 Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: AM-101 buy AM 101 tinnitus Tinnitus
AM 101 is a drug currently in clinical trials for the treatment of tinnitus. A press release explains how it functions: AM-101 is a small molecule N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist formulated in a biocompatible gel for intratympanic injection. Emerging evidence suggests that NMDA receptors in the cochlea...
Does Tinnitus Go Away?
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 1, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: does tinnitus go away? does usually tinnitus go away spontaneous remission Tinnitus
This is definitely a question that's at the forefront of someone's mind if they've just recently acquired the symptom of tinnitus. First things first - if you develop tinnitus: seek the evaluation of a doctor. Some medical causes of tinnitus are reversible and some can be harbingers of serious illness (in rare cases,...
DJ Paul Oakenfeld Urges Hearing Protection
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 18, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusUncategorized
Tags: paul oakenfeld Tinnitus tinnitus paul oakenfeld
If you know anything about electronic music, you'll know that Paul Oakenfeld is a huge name. One of the bigger DJ's from the 90's, he was one of the predecessors to the new Electronic Dance Music trend that's risen in recent popularity. As with any concert venue, the noise levels at such performances are always unsafe....
What About Failed Drug Treatments for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment L-baclofen
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...
Chronic Tinnitus Treated with Drug in Animals
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 19, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: chronic tinnitus NMDA receptor antagonist Tinnitus tinnitus reserach
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...
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...
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...
The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association - Hamilton Branch
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 2, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Tags: CHHA CHHA Hamilton hard of hearing speaker Tinnitus
Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: Several months ago, AudioNotch gave a talk to the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association - Hamilton branch. The talk was a great discussion about Notched Sound Therapy, and the audience members asked thoughtful, informed questions. The...
Is There a Treatment for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 1, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: homeopathic tinnitus treatment homeopathy Quietus Tinnitus
Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: There's an excellent blog that I recommend many of you read - it's called Science Based Medicine . It's a blog advocating the use of scientific plausibility to evaluate the prior probability of a given treatment being effective, and not...
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...
AudioNotch Launches Partnership with Zabell Hearing Centre
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 2, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: AudioNotch Tinnitus tinnitus clinic
AudioNotch is continuing to expand its Tinnitus Clinic Partnership program . In this program, patients can have the initial detection of their tinnitus frequency performed inside of a soundproof audiology room with audiology equipment. Some of our users have requested this service and we have sought to make it...
ABC News On the Anecdotal Association Between Tinnitus and Suicide
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 4, 2013
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and depression tinnitus and suicide
For some individuals, it appears as if tinnitus can precipitate some very serious mental illnesses such as severe depression, which may unfortunately culminate in suicide : Of 9,000 patients who have come to the tinnitus clinic at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, clinic director Billy Martin said he was...
Noel Gallagher, Frontman of Oasis, Reveals He Has Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 2, 2013
Tags: hearing loss noel gallagher Tinnitus
Add another casualty to the list of musicians felled by tinnitus secondary to noise-induced hearing loss : Noel Gallagher has revealed that he is suffering from tinnitus, having recently being diagnosed with the condition by doctors. The condition, which is characterised by ringing in the ears in the absence of...
Cool Paper: "Homeostatic plasticity drives tinnitus perception in an animal model."
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 22, 2013
Tags: homeostasis neuroplasticity SCIENCE Tinnitus
Another cool paper has come out presenting animal research on the patho-physiology (abnormal physiology) that produces tinnitus. The abstract reads fairly easily: Hearing loss often results in tinnitus and auditory cortical map changes, leading to the prevailing view that the phantom perception is associated with...
More Research on Lateral Inhibition
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 19, 2013
Tags: lateral inhibition neuroscience Tinnitus
An interesting paper reveals a little bit more about the relationship between abnormal lateral inhibition and tinnitus. The abstract is a bit opaque : Tinnitus is likely initiated by a discontinuity in the spontaneous or low-level-stimulus induced neural activity across auditory nerve fibers with different...
Are AudioNotch's Prices Unethical?
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 14, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Tags: development costs price gouging Tinnitus tinnitus treatment
Here's an e-mail we received from a user who was upset about what we charge for our tinnitus treatment service: Hello, I want to know and understand why you charge so much for this treatment? I understand that developing etc. has cost you time and probably some money, but nowhere even close to what you are charging....
Why do Some People Get Tinnitus But Other People Don't?
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 12, 2013
Tags: protective factors against tinnitus Tinnitus tinnitus experiments
Interesting research offers a possible explanation as to why, even when exposed to the same external harmful noise stimulus, some individuals will develop tinnitus and other individuals will not. Extrapolating findings from research on animals may reveal why some people develop tinnitus while others do not. Animals...
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...
Are AudioNotch's Effects Permanent? What the Research Says - FAQ Update
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 1, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: AudioNotch permanent Notched Music Therapy Tinnitus
While long term follow up studies have not yet been done on individuals whose tinnitus volume decreased after a completed treatment with Notched Music, the researchers who developed it have written the following: From a long term study on Notched Music Therapy conducted over several month's duration: The observed...
Why Doesn't AudioNotch Use a Proprietary Device?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 8, 2012
Tags: accessibility devices Tinnitus
Some of the other tinnitus sound therapy providers deliver their sound therapy via specialized, proprietary devices. In fact, their entire business model revolves around the perceived "value boost" that having a "special" proprietary device offers - the idea being that if the device is unique and expensive, then the...
"Tinnitus Cure" vs. "Tinnitus Treatment" - The difference between the two, and why it matters
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 7, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: homeopathy homeopathy tinnitus Tinnitus tinnitus cure tinnitus homeopathy tinnitus treatment
If you google the term "tinnitus cure" you'll run into a long list of treatments and remedies that are "proven" to "cure" tinnitus. The term "cure" is a loaded term - it is the strongest of all possible claims - it is a promise that a product will eliminate your tinnitus entirely . This claim is made despite the fact...
Use Music to Mask Tinnitus and Help You Concentrate for Work
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 28, 2012
Tags: concentration Tinnitus work music
I've heard many complaints from individuals suffering from tinnitus relating to difficulty concentrating. While Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy is useful in lowering the volume of your tinnitus - and can even have an additional effect as a "masking tool" on top of that - you may have to work for, say, ten hours a day...
Dana White Suffers From Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 22, 2012
Tags: dana white meniere's disease Tinnitus
Dana White, the well known president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship , is another notable public figure who suffers from Tinnitus. He suffers from tinnitus secondary to Meniere's disease, and is currently booked for a surgical treatment in 2013 : Meniere's Disease affects the inner ear and causes "spontaneous...
Famous People With Tinnitus: A Long, and Inspiring, List
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 16, 2012
Tags: celebrities with tinnitus famous people with tinnitus Tinnitus
Here is a link to a long list of highly accomplished individuals who suffer from Tinnitus. One of my favorites is Jean-Jacques Rousseau : From "Confessions" (1780) "...a great noise started up in my ears, a noise that was triple or rather quadruple, compounded of a low and muffled humming, a softer murmuring as though...
What's the Most Common War Injury? Hearing Loss
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 14, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: combat hearing damage IED Tinnitus VA veterans
A fascinating article on NBC shows the incredible prevalence of hearing loss and tinnitus among U.S. armed forces personnel returning from conflicts abroad: “You’ve been to a concert – you know how your ears are ringing afterward? It’s just like that my entire life,” Brogan said. “A lot of guys get home and they...
Tinnitus Research: Maladaptive Plasticity
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 7, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: inhibitory neurotransmission pathophysiology research Tinnitus
Recent research has summarized the following the model as one of the leading hypotheses behind the pathological basis of tinnitus: A compelling hypothesis is that tinnitus results from a maladaptive plastic net down-regulation of inhibitory amino acid neurotransmission in the central auditory pathway. This loss of...
Stem Cells as a Tinnitus Treatment?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 5, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: research stem cells Tinnitus
There are many possible avenues for a total tinnitus cure (i.e. a complete cessation of all tinnitus symptoms). We've posted before on the positive results of using stem cells to restore hearing following the death of cochlear hearing cells. Most people have sensorineural tinnitus induced by hearing loss, so...
Tinnitus Frequency Detection - Science Provides Some Tips
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 30, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus pitch matching tinnitus tuner
There's a great deal of interesting research on tinnitus pitch matching - a term synonymous with tinnitus pitch detection, or "tinnitus tuning." An important paper we'd like to bring to the attention of AudioNotch users is entitled " Comparison of manual and computer-automated procedures for tinnitus pitch-matching ."...
Detecting Your Tinnitus Tone: Scientific Research
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 30, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus pitch matching
There are multiple methods available for detecting a user's tinnitus tone. Detecting a user's tinnitus tone can be done manually, with computer-aided guidance, or even with the aid of an audiologist in a sound booth in select audiology clinics. This particular study compared three alternative methods: The most...
Controversy About Un-Notched White Noise in Tinnitus Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 19, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: cochrane review Tinnitus tinnitus masking therapy white noise
There's been a great deal of controversy about the actual utility of tinnitus maskers as a treatment for tinnitus (not as a mere coping aid, which is basically a completely subjective, non-scientific term. Our tinnitus masker is intended only for use as a coping aid). So what do you when you have conflicting evidence...
Why Positional Changes of The Jaw and Head and Neck Can Change Your Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 18, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: research somatosensory neurons Tinnitus
There's long been a great deal of anecdotal evidence indicating that positional changes of the head and neck can dynamically and instantaneously affect one's tinnitus tone and volume. The exact pathophysiology of why this is the case has long been a mystery, but most suspected that varying sensory nerves in the head...
How to Prove that We are Providing a Notched Product
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: frequency re-tuning Tinnitus
Recently, we received a surprising e-mail from one of our users. To our shock and dismay - she indicated that she suspected that we had not actually been providing a correctly notched product. Of course, we take any concerns about our integrity extremely seriously. Therefore, we've provided a handy step-by-step guide...
The Importance of Hope
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 12, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
It's not surprising that tinnitus can trigger or induce depression. There are many anecdotal reports of the onset of depression following the acquisition of tinnitus, and multiple studies show an association between the two - although it is not necessarily clear which way the causality lies. There are even tragic...
Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 8, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment
An exciting new avenue for research is Vagal Nerve Stimulation ( click here to see a wikipedia article on the Vagus Nerve). Consider the following: In another paper in the journal Experimental Neurology , Kilgard led a team that paired vagus nerve stimulation with audio tones of varying speeds to alter the rate of...
Veterans and Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 6, 2012
Tags: combat ear protection hearing loss Tinnitus veterans
Veterans, given their increased exposure noise-induced hearing damage, are at a significantly increased risk of developing tinnitus. Common exposure risks are typically explosions and gunfire. Being in the vicinity of warzone entails exposure to a variety of risks. Fortunately, various measures are oftentimes taken in...
The Dangers of Concerts Without Earplugs
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012
Tags: concerts earplugs hearing loss Justin Bieber justin biever Tinnitus
A lot of people might dismiss this story as farcical, even ridiculous. A lot of criticism has been levied at the the prevalence of spurious litigation in the American court system. That said, there's little doubt in my mind that this woman's story is true : An Oregon woman has filed a $9.2 million lawsuit against pop...
New Evidence That Headphones Can Cause Hearing Loss
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012
Tags: hearing loss Tinnitus
One of the most insidious forms of hearing loss occurs through what appear to be relatively benign objects: headphones. Headphones, when playing music with a high enough volume, can cause noise induced hearing loss. It's particularly concerning given that people use headphones on a regular basis. Youth in particular...
Does AudioNotch Work For Meniere's Disease?
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 20, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: meniere's disease Tinnitus
Multiple people have asked us whether or not AudioNotch will work with individuals who suffer from tinnitus that is caused by Meniere's disease. UFC president Dana White is a notable celebrity who suffers from this illness. Wikipedia states : Ménière's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that can affect hearing and...
Blogging User Questions: Credibility
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 15, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: credibility fda Tinnitus
A user of ours has sent the following e-mail, voicing her reasons for skepticism about the efficacy of AudioNotch. Verbatim (with her identity removed), her e-mail reads as follows: I have had tinnitus for nearly twenty years and have spent much money trying various remedies. It appears to me that money is more...
AudioNotch Profiled in the McMaster Silhouette
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 10, 2012
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus
Hi all, We're pleased to announce that AudioNotch has been profiled in the McMaster Silhouette ! You’re at a rock concert, listening to your favourite musician rip a guitar solo, or at a crowded nightclub, fist pumping to a blaring techno pop song. When you eventually leave, on top of fun memories (or lack thereof),...
Free Tinnitus Masker
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 30, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: free software Tinnitus tinnitus masker
When I first developed tinnitus, I struggled tremendously. Being enrolled in a taxing educational program like Medical School didn't help. In particular, it was extremely difficult to sleep - the noise of tinnitus prevented me from falling asleep in a timely manner. One thing that helped me was the usage of tinnitus...
Tinnitus and Insomnia
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Anyone with tinnitus can tell you that it's hard to sleep with a loud noise going off inside your head. The ringing in your ears isn't exactly conducive to falling unconscious. Many individuals feel the need to turn to fans or other masking noises in order to fall asleep. Confirming these anecdotal reports, researchers...
Evidence that Tinnitus Negatively Affects Cognition
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: attention cognition Tinnitus
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....
Chris Martin Suffers from Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Coldplay concerts hearing damage hearing loss Tinnitus
Add another one to the long list of musicians who've developed tinnitus from loud noise exposure. Chris Martin has tinnitus : 'I’ve had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn’t got any worse – touch wood. ‘But I wish I’d thought about it earlier. 'Now [the band] always use moulded...
The Association Between Tinnitus and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: PTSD soldiers Tinnitus veterans
Here is a link to an interesting abstract drawing a link between Tinnitus and PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Researchers observed an interesting set of similarities between the way tinnitus and PTSD affect the auditory system: Similarities between the way PTSD and tinnitus influence auditory behaviors include...
Tinnitus Treatment Paper: Lidocaine
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: lidocaine Tinnitus tinnitus treatment
Here is a link to an abstract on a paper about the effects of Lidocaine on tinnitus. Lidocaine is a medication that is used as a local anesthetic and an anti-arrhythmic agent (suppressing cardiac arrhythmia) . Via brain imaging, it was found to produce both increases and decreases in the loudness of tinnitus. This...
Tinnitus Treatment Paper: Gingko Biloba
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: gingko biloba Tinnitus
Gingko Biloba. Is it a natural cure for tinnitus? A double blind, randomized controlled trial is considered the gold standard in experimental design and the best way to determine if true causation is present (i.e. whether or not a real treatment effect is seen with a given therapy, in a medical context). This type of...
Tinnitus and Meditation
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and meditation
I make an effort to meditate daily for a variety of health reasons. Meditation has been shown to yield structural changes in the brain that help us to deal with stress and to improve our emotional regulation. There's a movement sweeping across North America right now which is advocating mindfulness meditation, a...