Tinnitus Intervention Trial in Melbourne

Hi everyone,

I am running a pilot study with an attention based retraining intervention for reducing tinnitus at the University of Melbourne.

We are looking for participants who have bothersome tinnitus and would be willing to trial a computer based intervention that they can take home and use as required over a couple of months.

If you know any-one in Melbourne who would like to be involved please let me know via this forum

Many thanks

Neil

 

Any info on what you are trying to do? What is the treatment plan? What is your hypothesis?

 

Id be interested in participating Neil. I live in Geelong, but am in Melbourne most days for work.

I have sent you my contact details in a private message.

Cheers

Deb

 

Good luck Deb. I am in adelaide so can't participate. Let's hope Neil is on to something.

Any others from melbourne australia here.......?

 

I live in Melbourne Australia but would like some more info first

 

Am also in Melbourne, live close to the city (approx ten mins.) and interested if there is any more info available.

 

He want just to know how many people living in Melbourne on this forum

 

Live in Cairns but grew up in Melbourne

 

Ballarat here but maybe interested if it doesn't involve too many contact hrs.

 

Hi every-one

thanks for responding. I was expecting to get an email when responses came through, so sorry I'm a bit late getting back to you.

The trial is using a set of listening tasks that have been programmed on a laptop computer that the participant can take home. It is based on evidence that the brain can rapidly learn to supress tinnitus. However this suppression is usually short lived. We have developed a game that can be played on the computer whenever tinnitus is bothersome that we hope will lead to a more permanent brain retraining over time. The program will also gather a few measures of what your tinnitus sounds like each time you use it.

So in response to the above questions, we only need to meet briefly twice - at the start and end of your participation. We have initially programmed 20 sessions, but you can use it for as long as you like (we would need the laptop back at some stage - but we hope you won't need it any more after 20 sessions). Each session will take about 10 minutes. We can meet on campus at the University of Melbourne in Parkville.

thanks again for your interest

Neil

 

Hi Neil,
I live in Dandenong. I was wondering if since it is a computer program, is there any chance you would be able to post it in dropbox as a exe. file and so make it available for all to try out?

 

Hi Neil,
I live in Sydney. In reference to what Jeannette has suggested above, if it is not possible due to complexity of the program, could you send us some .mp3 files as a sampler that we can try out on our own devices and report back?
Thanks

 

Hi Neil, I think jeannette idea is great, I would also be willing to try it out! I am located in Adelaide

 

Hi every-one

thanks for your interest - but I need to give you the hardware as well.

If it goes well we will invest in programming expertise to make it available over the web. Its always hard to make things work reliably on people's own computers

We have 3 participants starting next week and need around 20 to be sure it works

I will post any further developments.

thanks again

Neil

 

Hi Neil,

Thanks for the post and undertaking this trial. I am interested in learning more and partaking in it. Have had troublesome tinnitus for 5 months now and am based in Melbourne.

Please let me know next step.

Thanks,

Mike

 

I would be willing to participate. Live in the south east suburbs. Getting to Melbourne Uni would be a breeze for me

 

Hi every-one

I first posted about our tinnitus intervention trial at Melbourne University in late April this year.

All our trials have been promising so far and are looking for new participants in Melbourne. It's been slow because people want to keep using our gear!

If you're interested you will need to come in to Melbourne University to do an interview and pick up a laptop. After 20 sessions (at your own pace) we will need to meet again to review progress and download the data.

please email me at mcln@unimelb.edu.au

best regards

Neil McLachlan