Tinnitus
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Tinnitus: why it’s still such a mystery to science
Despite the many groundbreaking medical advances of the last century, there are still some conditions that continue to perplex scientists. One such symptom is tinnitus, which people have reported experiencing as far back as the 1600 BC. Tinnitus is characterised by hearing unwanted sounds, such as a ringing, buzzing or humming noise in your ears or head. For one in eight people, these sounds never disappear. Although the condition is more common in older adults – possibly due to the natural ageing process – tinnitus can affect people of all ages, including young children.
It’s estimated that 30% of people worldwide will experience tinnitus at some point in their life. This number…
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Apps and Gadgets to Help You Cope With Tinnitus
If you suffer from ringing in your ears, tech can provide some relief.
Five People Told Us What They Do For Their Tinnitus
The remedies they tried include everything from therapy and mindfulness to weed and noise-canceling headphones.
Psychotherapy Helps People Tune Out The Din Of Tinnitus
"Cognitive behavioral therapy is widely accepted and promoted by our national professional society, but very few people know about it," says Lin. "It's about converting the way in which you think about tinnitus from negative emotions and trains of thought to more positive trains of thought."
The Brain: Ringing in the Ears Actually Goes Much Deeper Than That
Research on tinnitus has shown that it's rooted in the very way we process and understand sound. Today tinnitus continues to resist medicine’s best efforts, despite being one of the more common medical disorders. Surveys show that between 5 and 15 percent of people say they have heard some kind of phantom noise for six months or more; some 1 to 3 percent say tinnitus lowers their quality of life. Tinnitus can force people to withdraw from their social life, make them depressed, and give them insomnia.
A Breakthrough in Understanding Tinnitus: The Entire Hearing System Studied
Tinnitus is also frequently accompanied by hypersensitivity to noise. Depending on its intensity and frequency, it can considerably impair the quality of life of people who suffer from it, including their ability to return to work. It can also cause physiological disorders similar to diseases linked to stress, anxiety, depression or auditory hypersensitivity.
Living With a Sound You Can’t Turn Off
Recently Dr. Cima’s team demonstrated the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary, psychology-based approach to this problem. The technique, published last spring in The Lancet, does not make the ringing go away, but it does show that now there is real hope for relief for people whose tinnitus impairs their ability to work, sleep and enjoy life.
Living with Tinnitus: I Find It Hard to Believe Silence Ever Existed
Tom Bellamy from the band Losers woke up one day with ringing in his ears. Five years on, we asked him to write about life with tinnitus.
Losing My Mind (And Dream) to Pulsatile Tinnitus: The Less Noisy Road Back
The most common noises are ringing, hissing, and roaring, or some combination of them. While "popular" tinnitus exhibits this classic acoustic behavior, and can only be perceived by the subject, the kind I was, and still am, afflicted by is categorically distinct.
Neuroscience may offer hope to millions robbed of silence by tinnitus
For now, with that cure still looming in the distance, patients seeking treatment are often met with frustration and dead ends. “The ENT’s say, ‘well it’s not in the ear, so we can’t help you,’” Rauschecker said. “And the neurologists usually aren’t very interested in this either, because they don’t understand it, and tinnitus is a small domain.” There’s no lack of homeopathic drugs, vitamins and herbs online, boasting a quick fix for tinnitus. James Henry, who works for the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research at the VA Medical Center in Portland,said to beware of these online “remedies.” “My advice would be to be skeptical of anything on the internet,” Henry said. “Don’t be taken in on unproven methods. Don’t spend money on things that aren’t proven to work.”
Now We Know What Causes Tinnitus, That Never-Ending Ringing In Your Ears
The incessant ringing some people hear happens when the brain can’t process noise properly.
Plasticity and Tinnitus
Although Plasticity is based on reasonable scientific hypotheses, so far there is no conclusive evidence that it is effective in reducing tinnitus. Trials using similar methods have yielded mixed results, with less than 50% of patients reporting modest subjective reductions in tinnitus.
So Neuroscientists Have Found a Way to Stop It, But What Exactly Is Tinnitus?
A new treatment currently undergoing testing in the US, marketed as the "Serenity System," however, gets to the very root of the condition in a new way, literally plugging into the vagus nerve, the big one connecting the brain to the body's myriad organs, and releasing pulses that help the auditory cortex of the brain "retune" itself in such a way as to eliminate the bothersome sounds.
Suppressing Tinnitus With Music Therapy
Subjective tinnitus, the ringing or other noise that often accompanies noise-related hearing loss, is a tough problem to treat. But researchers in Germany have come up with a novel approach, a kind of music therapy in which the music is custom-tailored to the person with tinnitus.
The Sound That Comes From Nowhere
Millions of people have a ringing in their ears—a condition called tinnitus—often with no discernible cause.
Tinnitus Advice and Tips for a Treatment and Cure
The huge amount of different (and mostly contradictory) information regards tinnitus makes it difficult to find an appropriate remedy for the individual case.
Tinnitus Tips
As I’ve spent a lot of time reading and thinking about tinnitus, I want to share some tips that helped me get over the initial shock and go back to living normally. Much of the advice in this FAQ is based on what I’ve read about Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT), the leading clinically proven tinnitus treatment.
Tinnitus: Why Won't My Ears Stop Ringing?
For a long time, doctors thought tinnitus was a problem in the ears. But they now think it's more of a problem in the brain. In the past 10 years, brain imaging has given clues that the tinnitus "sounds" may be caused by a brain that is not connecting its various sections clearly.
What Is That Noise!?! My Take On Living With Tinnitus
The best way to counteract my tinnitus that I have found is to watch TV or to play music softly in the background. Any sort of white background noise will do. It needs to be just loud enough to cover up the ringing, but quiet enough so it does not drown out the real sounds around me.
Tinnitus: why it’s still such a mystery to science
Despite the many groundbreaking medical advances of the last century, there are still some conditions that continue to perplex scientists. One such symptom is tinnitus, which people have reported experiencing as far back as the 1600 BC.
CureTinnitus.org
CureTinnitus.org is a membership platform for people who choose to make healing from tinnitus their goal. We offer a complimentary Tinnitus Liberation First Steps eCourse and you can register for the course...
Tinnitus & Hyperacusis Center
Approximately 75% of all the people who experience tinnitus are not bothered by it, and they treat tinnitus like any other sound to which they easily habituate. The important aspect is that there is no difference in the psychoacoustical characterization of tinnitus between those who experience tinnitus and those who suffer because of it. This observation is one of the findings responsible for the development of a new model of tinnitus, and based on the model, Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. The model is based on basic, well-established neurophysiological and psychological principles.
Tinnitus 123
This blog is for tinnitus sufferers, tinnitus researchers, and friends and family of tinnitus sufferers. The goal is to raise awareness about tinnitus and to promote ideas that may help to lead to a cure. There is no cure for chronic severe tinnitus that is caused by non-regenerative cochlear cell damage. However, there are ways to manage tinnitus and the secondary conditions that tinnitus causes.
Tinnitus Support Message Board
The Tinnitus Support Message Board, founded in 2001, is a place of comfort where those with tinnitus can meet to exchange information, advice, and support.
Tinnitus Talk
Tinnitus, Pulsatile Tinnitus, Hyperacusis & Ear Pain. Join the discussions today!
Action on Hearing Loss
Action on Hearing Loss is the new name for RNID. We’re working for a world where hearing loss doesn’t limit or label people, where tinnitus is silenced and where people value and look after their hearing.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
The most effective treatment for tinnitus is to eliminate the underlying cause. Tinnitus, in some cases, can be a symptom of a treatable medical condition. Unfortunately, in many cases, the cause of tinnitus cannot be identified, or medical or surgical treatment is not an option. In these cases, the tinnitus can still be managed using a variety of other methods.
American Tinnitus Association
Committed to a Cure... ATA is a global leader in the effort to find a cure for tinnitus. We bring together patients, researchers, healthcare professionals, industry partners and lawmakers to develop tinnitus management tools and fund vital tinnitus research.
British Tinnitus Association
BTA is a world leader, with a trained team of friendly and experienced advisers for anyone who experiences tinnitus or those simply seeking guidance or information about the condition.
Dr. Nagler's Tinnitus Corner
This Q & A site has been established as a resource for anybody who has questions or concerns regarding tinnitus, hyperacusis, or related conditions.
Hearing Health Foundation
Thanks to the generosity of Les Paul Foundation and other charitable individuals, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) funds groundbreaking research to advance our scientific understanding of tinnitus.
MedicineNet
In addition to tinnitus retraining therapy, other treatments exist which attempt to relieve tinnitus, and each patient may benefit differently depending upon the cause of the tinnitus and their response to treatment.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Although we hear tinnitus in our ears, its source is really in the networks of brain cells (what scientists call neural circuits) that make sense of the sounds our ears hear. A way to think about tinnitus is that it often begins in the ear, but it continues in the brain.
ScienceDaily
Your source for the latest news on tinnitus research.
Vestibular Disorders Association
Tinnitus is very common. Most studies indicate the prevalence in adults as falling within the range of 10% to 15%, with a greater prevalence at higher ages, through the sixth or seventh decade of life.1 Gender distinctions are not consistently reported across studies, but tinnitus prevalence is significantly higher in pregnant than non-pregnant women.
AudioNotch
AudioNotch is online software that creates custom sound therapy to treat tinnitus.
MicroTransponder
MicroTransponder is developing therapies aimed at treating various neurological disorders such as tinnitus, chronic pain, and stroke.
Neuromonics
Do you have ringing in your ears? Or does it sound more like a hum? Either way, you are experiencing tinnitus symptoms. Learn more about this condition and how Neuromonics’ line of products can help you.
Otoharmonics
At Otoharmonics, our intent is to provide those affected by subjective tinnitus with support and personalized, science–based tools to improve daily life
Otonomy
Otonomy is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drug therapies for disorders of the inner and middle ear.
Phonak
It is estimated that 10-15% of the population experience tinnitus - a ringing, roaring, whooshing or chirping sound in the ears. However, while there is no cure, scientific research has proven that real tinnitus relief is possible. The key? Treating the most common underlying cause – hearing loss, which 80% of people with tinnitus have to some degree – alongside one-on-one coaching to help you better understand and cope with the noise in your head. Are you frustrated by tinnitus? If so, the good news is that real relief is available through a combined treatment approach.
SimplyNoise
SimplyNoise’s signature color noises are utilized in clinics, schools, and workplaces around the world to help people of all age groups and professions focus, relax, and sleep better.
Starkey
Starkey Hearing Technologies is much more than the hearing aids we produce. Starkey is an experience. One that doesn't merely promise more, but delivers more: more communication, more participation, and more opportunities to do what you love to do.
TinniFree
TinniFree provides powerful support for noise free hearing based on clinical research it is formulated to address the muliple needs of those with hearing concerns.
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