Your Questions for Dr. Josef Rauschecker Interview

What is the relationship between tinnitus and visual snow?

 

I believe antibiotics can cause hearing dysfunction. Care to elaborate on this and maybe offer which antibiotics are not ototoxic? Thank you.

 

Selfish question. If you were within the first two weeks of suffering acute acoustic trauma and experiencing loud tinnitus, what would your recommended course of action be?

 

Another selfish question -- and maybe irrelevant to the topic or already addressed (haven't had time to read his specialization/interest quite yet -- but just trying to get some questions in before the deadline). I've read a lot about benefits of meditation, but there seems to be a camp that emphatically states that the whole objective is to block the tinnitus out the best you can and that focusing on your tinnitus is the worse thing you can do... while the other says, just go ahead and make the tinnitus your focus point (since you can't drawn it out) and just control your response... Any thoughts?

 

I am very interested in your study to be launched in March regarding building an animal model in primates.

What will the fate of the study by if the funding goal is not reached?

 

Based off of the theory presented in your TED Talk of the "internal noise cancellation system", what would explain a worsening of symptoms or vice versa?