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    Resveratrol Reported to Protect From Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

    "Resveratrol, a compound found in red wine and red grapes, has long been hailed for its antioxidants -- and now, a new animal study shows it could also protect against the harmful biological effects of hearing loss. The study, conducted in rats, shows that resveratrol could have protective...
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    H2 Antihistamines, Famotidine, Tinnitus

    i struggle with acid reflux and have suspected for a long time that a number of medications i took last year contributed to the return of my tinnitus i dont know why but this week my acid reflux got really bad and in desperation i took an H2 antihistamine yesterday to help stem the pain i...
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    Tinnitus and Cochlear Biochemical Electricity

    the organ of corti and the scali media divides a potassium rich environment from a sodium rich environment on either side of that long coiled snail shaped thing known as the cochlea in a sense, part of the inner ear looks like a battery and indeed generates an electrical potential though...
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    Forget GABA for a While... Think Glutamate?!

    like many here and there ive tried to moderate my tinnitus by effecting GABA in some way or another as we all know gaba is responsible for calming down or inhibiting neural transmission ive tried gaba agonists... think benzos like klonopin (clo0nazepam) or adding directly to my brains...
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    Researchers Begin First-Ever Study of Stem Cells to Treat Hearing Loss

    http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2012/120424/Regenerating-Hearing--Researchers-Begin-First-Ever-Study-of-Stem-Cells-to-Treat-Hearing-Loss.htm Regenerating Hearing: Researchers Begin First-Ever Study of Stem Cells to Treat Hearing Loss The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved...
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    Anybody Heard from joe?

    thinking good thoughts for Joe...kinda concerned we havent heard from him yet...hope hes ok he was on the web site yesterday at 958 am but did not post...curious mt
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    Can Amoxicillin Cause or Exacerbate Tinnitus?

    well it had to happen my doc prescribed an antibiotic, which i need to with an infected tooth before oral surgery but to take it ...or not to take it... that was the question im so fearful everytime i take anything anymore... been hurt so many times by so many different drugs...otc and...
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    Tinnitus Textbook Devotes Chapter to Cannabinoids

    in a textbook written by Paul Smith there is discussion about the anti epileptic effect of cannabinoids and their potential to down regulate glutamate thus affecting tinnitus http://www.springerlink.com/content/u1v07ul7107t2084/ Abstract 1. One of the main theories of tinnitus is that it...
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    Very Detailed U.W. Research Picture of the Inner Ear Structure

    way cool picture that shows the spiral of hearing cells in the cochlea and much more http://depts.washington.edu/hearing/featured/mouse-inner-ear-depicted-our-2011-bloedel-sound
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    Tinnitus Loudness and Perceived Pitch-Frequencies Provide Diagnostic Information

    i realize this research is 10 years old but it bears repeating the tinnitus you hear" or percieve tells someething abouut the dysfunction in the ear and possibly the brain from the summary --- abstract "A French study found that just one in 123 tinnitus patients suffered no hearing loss...
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    Unilateral Tinnitus, So You Have It?

    its always a puzzle to me that my left ear has gone crazy T while my right side is soft T i wonder if the inner an outer hair cells in the two cochleas are to blame or if all this difference is about auditory processing at the dorsal cochlear nucleus or the auditory cortex etc so...
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    Researchers Regenerate Damaged Stereo Cilia Using MATH1 Gene

    more than two years ago, this result...and where are we now...wheres the urgency amazing Abstract 484, Date 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Sunday, February 7, 2010 Session Session J: "Regeneration of Stereocilia of Cochlear Hair Cells by Math1 Gene Therapy *Shi-Ming Yang, Wei Chun Chen, Wei-Wei...
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    "Homeostatic Plasticity Drives Tinnitus Perception in an Animal Model"

    The uc berkley scientist who headed the study published sept 2011 tht i believe has been linked at TT before received some interesting reporting in scientific american as the article includes somee information not available in the abstract (full publication behind pay wall) and some graphs and...
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    Residual Inhibition and Habituation

    no matter how much i read and investigate i have yet to understand how playing noises that match the frequencies of our tinnitus manages to stop the tinnitus for a short time...how curious and yet the path towards habituation seems almost to be the opposite, one where we dont mask the tinnitus...
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    Tinnitus Tantalizingly Shuts Off for 1 Second and Then...

    ive been experiencing a very weird variation on tinnitus i got three noises usually going on in my head at the same time...ringing, hiss and a very high frequency EEEEEEEEEEE that seems to match up with sample sounds on youtube of about 8k hz but in the past few weeks i get this sound thats...
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    Tinnitus, Targeting "Central" (Brain) or Peripheral (Cochlear) Treatments

    in the last several years there appears to be "shift" in thinking; that tinnitus is more a problem of the central brain and brain stem processing, than previously thought...but i am none the less struck by one simple fact research has established that a number of drugs administered to the...
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    BMS-204352 Maxipost — Modulating Potassium Ion Channels Decreases Tinnitus in Rats

    id put my money on this approach ---- Effects of the potassium ion channel modulators BMS-204352 Maxipost and its R-enantiomer on salicylate-induced tinnitus in rats. Lobarinas E, Dalby-Brown W, Stolzberg D, Mirza NR, Allman BL, Salvi R. Source State University of New York at Buffalo, Center...
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    ClinicalTrials.gov

    has this been posted before... if so sorry for the repeat a place to find out about government oversight of open clinical trials for all manner of tinnitus treatments http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition="Tinnitus" best wishes mock turtle
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    Tinnitus Is Like Water Torture

    Hello to everybody at tinnitus talk nice site youve got here...thanks to all who make it happen, especially Markku ive been lurking here for about a month...im a long time tinnitus "sufferer"...20 years or so but truth be known amazingly, i somewhat "recovered" from my first bout with T...