I recently contacted a childhood friend of mine, now a neuroscientist and sufferer of mild tinnitus. He pointed me into the direction of this therapy and says that while initial test were good in animals, replication has been difficult in humans.
Ever since I started needing glasses and saw that people with multiple personality syndrome have differing vision characteristics per personality, I've been thinking about ways to manipulate the signal processing in the brain. Both to improve vision and now my tinnitus.... A completely different way in which nerve stimulation may be useful.
I do believe the therapy has great merit since it initializes neuromodulation through plasticity and that further down the line we may learn how to properly target the tympanic nerve instead to treat cochlear tinnitus in a different way.
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We would have to stimulate nerve number 2, and only 2, the entire picture represents about 1 cm so if anyone has a novel way of targeted electrostimulation let me know. Perhaps from the top down or bottom up. Likely using a current and a magnetic field to guide it around the other nerves and then calibrating the targeting with a sound check.
ACRN therapy uses sound to activate that nerve and counteract the sound generated in our synapses because of damage in the cochlea or syncrony in the auditory cortex. Nobody seems to have mentioned this before but logically if you have cochlear tinnitus and ACRN therapy reprograms the syncrony you may also cause cortical syncrony over time with regular tinnitus.
If we could effectively target the tympanic nerve there may be ways to program an off switch for the tinnitus. But it would likely mean that during the off time one would not be able to hear much in those frequency ranges.
