Mechanisms of Tinnitus
Much current thinking about the generation of tinnitus seems to be converging around the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Disinhibition hypothesis (DCND-H):Firstly, damage to the cochlea leads to reduced...
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I've read that whiplash is closely related to TMJ and both can be caused by motor vehicle accidents. This may have been the source of the victim's post-accident tinnitus. I do see how any peripheral...
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BVIt is believed that cortical reorganisation results following cochlear damage because the brain rewires itself to receive input from the functional hair cells adjacent to damaged hair cells in the...
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RingIn, your critique is very logical and makes good sense, but you're assuming that when a hair cell is not processing sound it is not sending a signal and from the brain's perspective may as well be...
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A good friend of mine is a chronic pain doc, and I posed this very question to him. I went to him because he just so happens to be a top anesthesiologist and he has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering...
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BV wrote above: "Secondly, as jaw movements (to my knowledge) do not tend to influence our perception of external sound signals, their capacity to influence tinnitus may indicate that the relevant...
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Afferent neurons in the cochlea Type I neurons are called "radial" fibers. They contact inner hair cells (IHC). Each radial fiber contacts 1 IHC. They make up 85-95% of the auditory nerve and carry...
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Afferent neurons in the cochlea Type I neurons are called "radial" fibers. They contact inner hair cells (IHC). Each radial fiber contacts 1 IHC. They make up 85-95% of the auditory nerve and carry...
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Mark, I absolutely agree with you that most cases of tinnitus arise from an insult to the inner ear (the periphery) which causes a central response ("central", admittedly, being nothing more than a...
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BVI think we pretty much agree and I appreciate your obviously informed perspective.For what it is worth, 18 months ago or so, I had an extended experience with Neurontin. The drug took the edge off...
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From the ATA website:Tinnitus Research Highlights[from Tinnitus Today, September 2002]New Tinnitus Research? Here it is! by Barbara Tabachnick Sanders, ATA Director of EducationHere is another year's...
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Thanks BV, very interesting. Nice to see so many people working on this thing. Hopefully it will continue to snowball. [just trying out the new graphics].
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The two most recently announced ATA-funded research projects are listed below. I think these are two of the most exciting projects they have ever funded. Enough of this "$95,000 to see which type of...
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Despite the various theories and how they may differ, am I reading correctly to think that in many of these theories masking would serve as a band-aid if engaged in early and often? For example in the...
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MJohnson, you said neurontin took the edge off your T - but also off everything else as well. Could you expound a little on that? After the somewhat positive reports on it here and elsewhere I'd been...
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twoashes, I don't think long-term masking is in-and-of-itself a way of preventing tinnitus from becoming permanently centralised. But's it's certainly possible, and there has never been a study done...
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Two, The idea of central tinnitus has been frightening to me, also. From what I've read, masking it and thereby lessening its emotional impact would not only lessen its influence in the limbic system,...
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The following is excerpted from an otherwise rather negative post on the always rather negative alt.support.tinnitus:"My unbearable tinnitus started after acoustic trauma during military action in...
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