Recent content by Markku

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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    On the one hand, you’re right; people sending Susan & Auricle accusatory or threatening emails has undoubtedly had a negative impact. We're not talking about innocent emails here congratulating them on their efforts, but rather self-entitled and vitriolic ones (or obsessive, like hundreds of...
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    Introducing Tinnitus Quest

    Yes, it will be recorded and published afterwards. In the original registration email you received after entering your details, there was a link in the calendar event that you can use to join. One hour before the start of the Q&A another email will be sent which has a "Join Webinar" button and...
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    Introducing Tinnitus Quest

    Friday, August 30th, 8 am Pacific, 5 pm CET. Once we have the registration procedure ready, we'll announce it here and put up a link! This should happen in the next few days.
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    Bad news: Auricle has decided not to release any statement at this time. We're disappointed, obviously, as we were expecting to be able to give you some more insight. But they want to stick to their strategy of focusing on their mission rather than engaging with the public. Essentially, their...
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    I've also met with some top-level ophthalmologists, and none of them have ever even remotely...

    I've also met with some top-level ophthalmologists, and none of them have ever even remotely suggested it could be a brain-related thing to see vs. not see them. I really dislike it when things are unnecessarily blamed on the brain, when there is something physiological to fix (e.g., Floaters...
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    OK, so maybe it was just something some patients came up with, and others thought, "This makes...

    OK, so maybe it was just something some patients came up with, and others thought, "This makes sense." :) To me, it doesn't make any sense that the brain should be able to filter randomly moving particles in your field of vision. Maybe it could if they were static and/or few in number.
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    @BB23, what's the source for this claim? Floaters are literally physical particles, and people...

    @BB23, what's the source for this claim? Floaters are literally physical particles, and people aren't born with them. "Most eye floaters are caused by age-related changes that occur as the jelly-like substance (vitreous) inside your eyes liquifies and contracts. Scattered clumps of collagen...
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    That's nonsense. A lot of people develop them as they age, but for most, they are so...

    That's nonsense. A lot of people develop them as they age, but for most, they are so insignificant that they don't really see them. But I clearly know "Before Floaters" and "After Floaters"; in the former, my vision was clear; in the latter, I'm being attacked by a gazillion spiderwebs and other...
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    Introducing Tinnitus Quest

    After Matteo de Nora's initial donation to TRI ran dry, they were no longer able to fund research. They haven't funded research in a considerable time now. Nowadays, TRI's most visible activity is the annual TRI conference (which is also not actually organized by TRI, but rather by local...
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    One step ahead of you: we had a very informative 1-hour call with the CEO last week. It was of course all confidential, but at the end, we offered to draft an update for the community. We did that, and it's now being reviewed & edited by Auricle. Hopefully, it's ready for publishing later this...
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    A Year of Reactive Tinnitus and Severe Hyperacusis

    With all due respect, your whole philosophy where someone needs to have severe tinnitus to develop an effective treatment for severe tinnitus is so beyond any logic that I cannot even find words for it. It's ill-conceived and just plain ignorant. Your own experience counters that logic of...
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    Lenire — Bimodal Stimulation Treatment by Neuromod

    Well, many of those who have genuinely disabling tinnitus would come back to report of their success with Lenire (if there was any success to be reported about, that is.) Not everyone of course, but in our experience the severe sufferers are more likely to report back on things. We also...
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    My Experience and Tips — Tinnitus from Loud Music (Primarily Concerts and Headphones)

    The vast majority of "leading tinnitus clinics" are the ones to be questioned and be skeptical of, not the real-life experiences of actual patients here who have first-hand seen how mild tinnitus can turn into something that cripples you for life. The warnings you have received here are not...
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    I was curious about this. What Dr. Djalilian told me today when I told him I'd like to update the community:
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    I wanted to make some things clear with Dr. Shore regarding the Hearing Health Foundation webinar, and: The webinar will focus on the basic science to give an understanding of how the basic science first led to an understanding of how tinnitus develops in a brain circuit and then how this...