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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389054/#brb3331-bib-0027 Confirms the poor opinion i have of the loudness matchings used to attempt to measure tinnitus. Abstract Introduction A fundamental question in phantom perception is determining whether the brain creates a network that...

For those interested: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123538 Abstract Background Peripheral auditory deafferentation and central compensation have been regarded as the main culprits of tinnitus generation. However, patient-to-patient discrepancy in the range...

Abstract There are pathophysiological, clinical, and treatment analogies between phantom limb pain and phantom sound (i.e., tinnitus). Phantom limb pain commonly is absent in dreams, and the question arises whether this is also the case for tinnitus. A questionnaire was given to 78 consecutive...

All the desired information is on the website: http://www.menieresdiseasestudy.com/ Since I don't have Ménière's I haven't tested the questionnaire and I don't know if they take patients outside the U.S

Uh? I thought constantly monitoring one's tinnitus was a bad idea. The Tinnitus Research Initiative has released a smartphone app that is supposed to do just that. https://www.trackyourtinnitus.org/ The most useful part may be the statistics you must fill before downloading the app.

I posted it in the other board so i might as well propose it to you too. This is a little web browser game where you try to put as many and as heavy celestial bodies around a star as possible. Without them crashing together or being ejected from a 2 astronomical units circle...

This study shows they are still investigating tDCS. 175 subjects. No placebo control group. Assessment of sound level reduction and annoyance by the patient on a EVA. They think polarity and placement of electrodes gives specific results according to the laterality of the tinnitus: If your...

https://walk.ata.org/ Their annual goal is 60 000 $ This is not really charity, it is an investment in research and a demonstration of our interest in finding a cure. Important when you lobby politicians that you are able to put your money where you mouth is. These donations are strictly...

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088253 Very interesting paper on the roles of attitudes facing tinnitus and the neurology behind it. Read the whole paper.

Martin Schecklmann , Michael Landgrebe, Berthold Langguth, the TRI Database Study Group Abstract Background Many people with tinnitus also suffer from hyperacusis. Both clinical and basic scientific data indicate an overlap in pathophysiologic mechanisms. In order to further elucidate the...

A rather uplifting paper about prosthetic limbs and their growing ability to give sensory feedback. It speaks about several technological approaches and gives more details about one of them: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/sensitive-prosthetic-hand-gets-a-grip Just wanted...

The COST, an organisation of European countries + Turkey is supposed to coordinate and fund research in science, medecine and erm... other stuff. It has started a project about tinnitus. They speak about neurophysiology so it probably won't be about the usual counseling babble. Finally some...

Front Psychiatry. 2013 Dec 18;4:158. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00158. Head-to-Head Comparison of Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation, Transcranial AC Stimulation, and Transcranial DC Stimulation for Tinnitus. Vanneste S1, Fregni F2, De Ridder D3. Author information Abstract Tinnitus is the...

Exoplanets are planets orbiting other stars than our own. One of the methods to detect them is to observe the change in luminosity when a planet passes in front of a star. It masks the star and so the luminosity observed by the telescope decreases. Detecting drops in the luminosity of a star...

In short, that means the brain activity related to tinnitus differs depending of the age of onset. And future treatments, at least brain stimulation based ones, will take that into account. They are refining their models. :)

http://www.tinnitusresearch.org/ PHD STUDENT POSITION at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Applications are invited for a PhD student position at the Lab for Auditory & Integrative Neuroscience (www.lab-audin.org) at the School of Behavioral and...

Pulsatile Tinnitus due to a Tortuous Siphon-Like Internal Carotid Artery Successfully Treated by Arterial Remodeling Dirk De Ridder, Sven Vanneste,* and Tomas Menovsky Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract A patient is described with a...

Apparently it is rare enough to be considered a cause of celebration by the Tinnitus Research Initiative. Of course it is owned by the evil Elsevier. Two things worth to mention: neuromodulation is evoked and De Ridder hasn't dropped tinnitus research after his move to New Zealand. There was a...

Tinnitus and musical hallucinosis: The same but more Source Vanneste S, Song JJ, De Ridder D. Department of Translational Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Belgium; School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Abstract While...

This is a curiosity. A study on a little 20 patients showing unilateral somatic tinnitus influences eye movement. "This study suggests that tinnitus can interact with ocular motor cortical areas, auditory pathways and maybe the vestibular function, leading to dysfunction of vertical saccades."...

The complete title is "Pinpointing a Highly Specific Pathological Functional Connection That Turns Phantom Sound into Distress.". Again i have access to the abstract only. But some sentences are interesting. By De Ridder, Congedo and Vanneste Electroencephalography data of 317 tinnitus patients...

I hope the title is catchy enough, i am not a wordy person. ATA's walk for a cure is a fundraising event geared toward funding research to cure tinnitus. All the money raised is devoted to research grants. I always read people complaining nothing is done to cure tinnitus. By donating to the...

Ok, this is just a pubmed abstract but i found a few facts interesting. Big names with years of experience are copublishing a paper. And De Ridder is still lead author of a tinnitus paper while using his coordinates in New Zealand. Means he hasn't totally left the ship. In fact i recall an...

They talk about a correlation between grey matter in the auditory cortex and tinnitus distress. I haven't read the full article but i don't understand. Tinnitus distress is reversible. So is grey matter volume? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23435735

They tested rTMS on several sites of the brain versus controls. I don't know if they simulated a multisite stimulation for the controls. "However, there was a difference on day 90: the multisite stimulation group showed an overall improvement whereas patients receiving temporal stimulation...

I just have the abstract. conclusion: "The current findings of intrinsic differences in tinnitus-related neural activity between the LOT and EOT groups might be applicable for planning individualized treatment modalities according to age of onset. Moreover, differences with regard to the age of...

This is slightly relevant to tinnitus. The EPFL, a first class Swiss engineering school, will pilot an international effort funded by the European commission to study the brain. Not only the brain itself but also the methods to stimulate and treat it. It is a ten years project. Effects for us...

I think Carl will like this one. It is a .pdf describing an implantable device which would monitor brain signals and modulate magnetic stimulations in order to tame automatically tinnitus. It is based partially on the works of De Ridder and Vanneste who think they have found way to measure...

Long story short, i am a long term patient of the brai2n clinic in Antwerp. Dirk De Ridder was my physician. I had done a TMS test which was negative so i was prescribed a neuronavigated TMS test. It is the same principle but the coil is placed by a robotic arm guided by your neuroimaging data...

A pleasant science daily article. "To see how the mechanism of hearing resembles a battery, you need to know that the auditory system of the fruit fly contains a protein that functions as a sodium/potassium pump, often called the sodium pump for short, and is highly expressed in a specialized...

Thanks to Sally's thread over clinical trials on the other board i noticed this one: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01270282?term=tinnitus&rank=81 That is alot of testing sites. It i a good sign for AM 101. This drug is supposed to target "Tinnitus following acute acoustic trauma...

Moderators, feel free to move this thread if you find it off topic. I posted it because this describes what Dirk De Ridder tries to do with tinnitus: identifying cortical zones overactive and taming them with electrodes. A man had neuropathic pain due to tumor removal on his face. He was...

Subjects and methods: 86 patients received the drug treatment, while 30 patients received no treatment. Results: Overall tinnitus distress was significantly reduced for the drug treatment group, while for the waiting control group this was not the case. No significant effect could be obtained...

And in some cases even worsens it. What is interesting in this study is they matched clinical diagnostic and EEG. They examined people with hearing loss and tinnitus. Unfortunately i just have the abstract and i don't even know the sample size. The measuring of tinnitus loudness by EEG matches...

EPFL (A world renowned Swiss engineering school) and Harvard medical school have teamed to develop a novel nondestructive means of seeing the cilia. Not a lot of info in the press release. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-epfl-harvard-loss.html Edit: The EPFL optics lab: http://lo.epfl.ch/

This is an old article from 2009. By tinnitus intensity they mean perceived loudness. As the titles says, they measure electric activity in the auditory cortex. They compared it with declarations of patients about the loudness of their tinnitus and found a correlation...

Done by the TRI. "Our data clearly indicate differences between tinnitus patients with and without trauma at tinnitus onset. Patients suffering from trauma-associated tinnitus suffer from a higher mental burden than tinnitus patients presenting with phantom perceptions based on other or...

I usually don't bother with TRT but this study may interest some: http://journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/Fulltext/2012/09000/Tinnitus_Retraining_Therapy___Mixing_Point_and.3.aspx

It will be available at the latest next year. For a price since, as far as I know, only one clinic is experimenting with this surgery. I guess they will be clogged with demand. They also treat neuropathic pain like phantom limb pain. The machine used, the ExAblate 4000, exists in only two clinics.