Differences Between Tinnitus and Deafness?

[osoba]

Are there any studies comparing people with hearing loss but without Tinnitus and people with Tinnitus?
How do they differ (their snails and brains) from each other?

 

[Keith Handy]

On one of the early episodes of the Tinnitus Talk Podcast, there's the suggestion that part of the brain acts as a gating mechanism that determines whether or not to amplify frequencies to compensate for what has been lost.