Can Tinnitus Be Measured?

Hello,

Is there any way to measure the volume of the tinnitus in our heads? Not the tone, I mean the volume as in dB for example.

I am a developer of applications and I made some applications to measure the hearing lose and tinnitus describer but I am looking to make an application to measure the volume of the tinnitus, Any thoughts please?

 

Maybe. There's so much going on with perception and the sufferer's knowledge about things like pitch and amplitude, that the end result is very subjective because at the end of the day, it all has to be described with words by each individual sufferer. The best bet would be for the person with T to know how to program synthesizers and create the sound of their tinnitus with a synthesizer and overlay it with natural sounds. Plus there's so many types of tinnitus characteristics. I'd say this would be a hard thing to do. There's just not an audio-out jack for our brains. I could be ignorant of other techniques, this is obviously just my opinion.

Better answer to the question is: Objectively, maybe, maybe not, probably not. Subjectively yes. But what kind of scientific measure is subjective? Maybe with fMRI. This all just shows the piss poor state of science regarding not just tinnitus, but the human brain/mind.

 

Hope this helps
https://www.ata.org/understanding-facts/measuring-tinnitus

 

There is no way to personally measure tinnitus but research has shown physical evidence of hyperactive parts of the brain and brain changes after hearing loss. No one knows what the brain is trying to do by generating tinnitus for sure do but it's doing something.




More info here
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/18/7601

"The Neural Bases and Neuroengineering of...

(somewhere in Shore's video it physical evidence of tinnitus I believe )

 

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

Honestly I made a simple application to measure the tinnitus in our head according to my simple understanding of the subject, I named it Tinnitus Measurement Application, but it was rejected by Google Play on the reason that there is no basis for the examination.

According to my imagination I built the application upon three stages: First check the pure frequencies just like the PTA test because I think the situation of that test is very much related to this thing, the second stage Is to find the type or the tone of tinnitus in the test subject and the third stage is to set the appropriate loudness level of tinnitus in the test subject's ear, so the final result appears in this form, my situation for example: