Novel tinnitus therapy helps patients cope with phantom noise
Patients with tinnitus hear phantom noise and are
sometimes so bothered by the perceived ringing in their ears they have
difficulty concentrating. A new therapy does not lessen perception of
the noise but appears to help patients cope better with it in their daily lives, according to new research led by Jay Piccirillo, MD.
Soldiers screened for potential vulnerability to tinnitus
Hearing loss is common for soldiers coming home from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, but another perhaps equally vexing problem is tinnitus, a condition that causes them to hear sound that isn’t there. Using MRI scans, researchers hope to identify differences in brain activity that will aid development of preventive strategies to alleviate the effects of tinnitus.