Tinnitus Is the Result of the Brain Trying, but Failing, to Repair Itself

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112122504.htm

Tinnitus appears to be produced by an unfortunate confluence of structural and functional changes in the brain, say neuroscientists.​

Did anything ever come out of this research?

 

But what about tinnitus that comes from cochlear hydrops, lol we all know that's not in the brain it's clearly a phenomenon of the ears. Google it and answer me that..

 

See above. What came out of it was a bunch of narrow minded nuerologist thought they cured tinnitus lol

 

It has been noted by Dr Will Sedley (newcastle university) that there is evidence that tinnitus can arise in the brain and / or the ear.

In favour of it being of brain origin is the increase in auditory brain activity as seen on fMRI as well as the act of severing the auditory nerve in some can cause/exacerbate t.

On the other hand, t is noted to often follow acoustic trauma, cutting the auditory nerve in some can improve t, the brain activity correlates with ear activity, and cochlear suppressive drugs can improve t.

 

It's the same guy as in this recent video, Josef Rauschecker. So yeah, I guess they're making progress. I'd put my money on this approach rather than drugs or regenerative efforts.

Tinnitus: Ringing in the Brain | Josef...

 

I think you are correct @DebInAustralia. Based on my own personal experience having lost my hearing from a ruptured ear drum due to an ear/mastoid infection and now having most of my hearing return and the level of the T going down a lot. I'd say that there is certainly cases where it is related to the ear. I'm 8 weeks in and I'm sure I'm still healing and who knows, maybe it will go away. I have heard cases of people's T going away from ruptured ear drums, infections etc therefor how could that be related to the brain?

 

The video is new but the actual research/discovery is almost 10 years old. I was so excited about that video only realize nothing has happened with that information after 10 years.

 

Don't know about evidence but there's a lot of info and links to papers in these threads:

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...ditory-cortex-implantation-for-tinnitus.8377/

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/deep-brain-stimulation-dbs-for-tinnitus.3625/

 

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...nversations-in-noise.17763/page-5#post-223099

They will be working on this for tinnitus.

 

Tell me does this logic make sense?:

so I cut off my hand and it hurt! but when I went to my hand doctor and showed him he said "SORRY IAN THERE"S NOTHING I CAN DO, YOU SEE THE PAIN IS IN YOUR BRAIN! IM NOT A BRAIN DOCTOR I CANT HELP YOU WITH YOUR CUT OFF HAND"

It doesn't make sense does it, the Hand doctor should help me with my cut off hand because it hurts, but he says sorry the pain is in your brain nothing I can do.

So why do we use this logic with tinnitus? Because nobody wants to address the elephant in the room that doctors know nothing about our ears.

I've asked doctors to cut my auditory nerve, it's not that easy because its actually the vestibu-cochlearnerve. In other words your balance and hearing nerve are woven together making surgery very, um, unsuccessful.