Theory of Everything... for Tinnitus: Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia

Nice addition of more research in support of brain functions. I stopped posting about this, but my tiny abnormal brain agrees.

 

I also believe that the underlying cause of tinnitus is an abnormality occured in the brainwaves.
As for treatments, in this case...
How can this abnormality be treated?
There is a long thread about this TCD an operation (HIFU) that a doctor thought about hoping that it could fix the TCD, and a very sad case (viking) who went through a very costly and painful operation in Switzwerland, and he put up with the long waiting, the transportation, the high price and all the pain, only to end up in great dismal after obtaining NO results in the reduction of tinnitus. He got disappointed and upset that he left the forum.

 

The article indeed is a great find. What i noticed first was the picture, where problems in two areas, one coloured in pink, in the temporal lobe, and the other one in green, also on the larger area of the temporal lobe, can lead to tinnitus. Problems in the green area can lead to tinnitus, but I do not think that acoustic traumas can cause problems in the green areas, and that may be the cause why so many people did not have any noise exposure or acoustic traumas, but remained with tinnitus after a difficult time (stress, anxiety, bereavement, etc) in their lives (many members report "stress" as the cause of their tinnitus, and that green area corroborates with what they are saying

 

It's definitely a brain issue. I have tinnitus, visual snow and BFS (benign fasciculation syndrome) all three are made worse from anxiety and stress. All three are guessed to be neurological in nature for a lot of cases. As soon as we can pin point the reason why and where our nerves are misfiring. We'll be much closer to a cure.

 

I'm not really convinced about any of this. We KNOW there are physical causes for some tinnitus, such as sound injury, malfunctioning eustachian tubes, allergies, or even tumor growth. How can something with a known physical cause be the result of a brainwave? TCD seems like a symptom, not an underlying cause.

 

Interesting post. I know for sure there are several physical issues that can cause Tinnitus (loud noise, ear infections, sleep apnea ...) but I must agree that there is also some kind of psychological reason for T, at least for myself, I have experienced much lower T when I felt good, low stress and anxiety, so I'm pretty sure that I could do much better if I could lower the stress levels at home here. Financial and emotional stress are the worst for T from my experience.

 

He's talking about the HIFU surgery by Professor Jeanmonod in Switzerland. This was probably before your time on this forum but the thread was one of the most viewed when it was relevant. ATEOS also went there but wasn't eligible for surgery if I remember correctly. Here's the thread:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/hifu-high-intensity-focused-ultrasound-surgery.276/

 

Dr. Sven Vanneste is the guy behind the vagus nerve stimulation.

 

I've read in an article that the sound of tinnitus itself is not the problem, but electrochemical reactions in different parts of the brain which increase the attention level to said reaction. A sound who might be going unnoticed in the brain will be experienced as strong due to the triggering of these reactions. This might explain why people experience different tones and pitches of tinnitus, why it occurs during acoustric trauma, allergies, life stress, head tumors etc. Even though all these causes originally differ, they trigger various electrochemical reactions whether that be a physical head injury or emotional grief. Since the electrochemical reaction is a new and abnormal one, the brain calls your attention to it. It's this link between the chemical changes, the brain's interpretation, and finally your awareness, that causes alertness -> stress -> reinforcement of alertness -> continuation of increased attention level -> alertness -> stress -> reinforcement of alertness -> increased attention level -> alertness -> stress -> reinforcement of alertness ... etc.

 

And round and round it goes. Probably a lot truth to this although kinda simplified.
Hjernen er alene!

 

Thank you for this post!!!

 

I’ve started having lucid nightmares that end in brain zaps after getting reactive tinnitus. I believe it’s because of what you posted. Here’s an interesting article explaining what I mean :

Mind you I never had an issue with nightmares beforehand and I didn’t even know lucid dreaming was a thing. I think it is all connected to the neurons by oscillating correctly like you said
@Samir
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/45520-brain-zaps-trigger-lucid-dreams.html

 

I think TCD is the symptom not the cause

 

Yeah I get ugly nightmares now too. This really may be the worst disease. All the more reason that the researchers need to abandon general methods of drug development and treat this like an emergency.

 

Hmm, this is interesting. When my tinnitus started it was quite sudden, full blast. I wonder if this could explain a thing or three.

 

Are there any researchers investigating this theory, if not how can we get someone interested?

 

Didn't @Viking have this surgery?

 

Viking had the HiFU one by Professer Jeanmonod in Swiss.
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/hifu-high-intensity-focused-ultrasound-surgery.276/

The guys with the new paper. Vanneste, De Ridder etc. are basically the same guys behind the old Brai2n clinic in Belgium and have now restarted in Gent in Belgium with the new name Brai3n. They basically do the same thing but maybe now they have some better protocols regarding where to stimulate and not.