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    Communal Treatment List

    Hello all, I have a big notebook full of tinnitus treatments (surgical, medicines, supplements) that I've picked up on my travels around the web that are slowly being formalised and would like to invite people to add to. It's public and published in an open 'mind map' format that anyone...
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    In Defence of the P-value: Understanding Trial Results

    https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/in-defence-of-the-p-value/ (graphic by Chen-Pan Liao via wikimedia.org) The P-value (and by extension, the entire enterprise of hypothesis-testing in statistics) has been under assault lately. John Ioannadis’ famous “Why most published...
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    Famous YouTube Rapper Dan Bull Reaches Out to Fans

    Top YouTuber Dan Bull, famous for excellent gaming rap comedy videos has reached out to his three-quarters-of-a-million fans for help with hyperacusis, tensor tympani syndrome (TTS), temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) and eustachian tube disorder that is harming his music and video...
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    Role of Attention in the Generation and Modulation of Tinnitus

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763413001784 Lots of interesting reading. Increased neural synchrony, which may play a crucial role in the generation of tinnitus percepts, is a further neural correlate of tinnitus that may result from neuroplastic mechanisms (Eggermont...
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    Reinnervation of Hair Cells by Auditory Neurons

    From 2006. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16408287 "Hearing loss can be caused by primary degeneration of spiral ganglion neurons or by secondary degeneration of these neurons after hair cell loss. The replacement of auditory neurons would be an important step in any attempt to restore...
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    Plastic Changes in Glycine and GABA after Ossicle Removal and Cochlear Ablation

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014488698968121 GABA release was elevated persistently after ossicle removal. After cochlear ablation, release was elevated at 5 days, near the control at 59 days, and elevated again at 145 days. After both lesions, glycine uptake was elevated...
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    Auditory Deprivation as a Cure

    There are research papers that talk about how a lack of input from a damaged cochlear will cause the brain to remap and start activating for nearby frequencies, giving you T. If this is the case, might it be possible for long term auditory deprivation, where you turn down the input to a much...
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    Could Be Worse

    Was thinking today how lucky we all are that what ails us doesn't stop us from reaching out to other people to support each other or searching for treatments and cures - we're still pretty much all here and haven't had to learn a completely new way of interacting with the world in order to carry...
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    Round and Oval Window Reinforcement for the Treatment of Hyperacusis

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25456168 Abstract PURPOSE: To present the outcomes of two patients (three ears) with hyperacusis treated with round and oval window reinforcement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Transcanal placement of temporalis fascia on the round window membrane and stapes...
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    Do You Get 'Fullness, 'Awareness' or Pain Inside the Head?

    Since starting retigabine my tonal component has gone down and I am left with mostly an all over brain 'shimmer' or hiss. It's from the inside out. While that's getting more and more tolerable, I'm left with a feeling of fullness, like an awareness of an area inside my head toward the ear going...
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    Positive Story About a Singer with Tinnitus

    Opera singer with sudden onset T habituates very well after a little over a year. Mentions his approaches and what worked. http://www.voice-talk.net/2012/12/surviving-tinnitus.html I woke this morning from the year's longest night and thought about my own journey through the dark. If that...
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    Researchers Discover an "Off Switch" For Pain In the Brain

    http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/11/27/2246224/researchers-discover-an-off-switch-for-pain-in-the-brain Scientists working together from several international universities have discovered that it is possible to block a pathway in the brain of animals suffering from neuropathic pain, which...
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    Tough Patch

    I've been quite bullish over the last week. There are 15 separate supplements on my sideboard and I've been popping them like candy in the hope that I can unbreak what noise did to my ears. I've been concentrating on reading these forums, signed up to the AM-101 trial, am going for HBOT...
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    Hi, I'm from the UK and Want to Offer Forum Ideas

    Hi all, Been lurking for almost 2 weeks - this is by far the best resource on the net, full of kind, supportive and intelligent people. My story is that I went out to a birthday on the 11th, 11 days ago - loud samba band played. Hurt while in the club, now I have noise induced tinnitus. Medium...
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    Feedback Forum Search Needs Tweaking

    When searching for am-101 in the forum search, it says "The search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common." This seems like a really important thing to be able to search for right now. Can it be excluded from the 'too short' list? This...