Recent content by MattS

Alexander: So your vaccine-related tinnitus spike dissipated?

Did your tinnitus ever improve?

I found one at Yonge/Eglinton: Dr. Sugar. He has both laser and traditional dentistry options. I actually went to him for a consult, found him to be very nice and understanding - even said that he had a bit of tinnitus himself. Let me hear the laser system (which makes its own kind of clicking...

I've been to a couple musicals since developing tinnitus. Wore plugs to both, and would definitely recommend that. The lights really depends on the sound man. I went to Dear Evan Hanson and found the sound perfectly hovering between 85-90 dB for all songs (and quieter between songs). But I went...

Not that I'm trying to make JCH rich, but let me pose two scenarios: 1. A man devises a program for tinnitus that helps take the edge off the symptoms in 25% of tinnitus patients. While not all patients are helped, and even those that are helped don't experience a complete cure, the man is...

So, I just downloaded the app... and there is TONNE of free content on there. Audio, video, meditations... you don't have to appreciate the content, but he's hardly fleecing anyone here. Anyway, whatever, I'm with @linearb - I might buy him a cup of coffee.

*Shrug*

Yeah, sorry Michael - as you suspected, I didn't see your post until now. Glad some of what I said was helpful. It makes sense that you'd experience louder sounds after exercise. Nothing you can do about that unfortunately, but just know that that's always temporary, and just due to the...

*Shrug* I guess I'm with @linearb here in believing the world has greater evils in it than this. Indeed, if the biggest damage here is that he nabs a couple bucks from a few people, in return for modest psychological relief, then I'm willing to look the other way.

I'll be honest, I've watched a number of his YouTube videos - all of which are free - and have found them to be broadly helpful. Are they "a cure"? Certainly not. But are they "a scam"? I don't really see how. The man is essentially claiming that your nervous system is on high alert, and that...

ELI5: The title sounds super exciting, but this study looks to have run *zero* tinnitus patients. What they have done is designed a system that could be used to undertake a neurofeedback protocol, where people are provided with real-time information about a specific feature of their brain state...

ELI5: Another resting-state study. This one has calculated a measure of 'signal frequency' within the resting state brain activity of the auditory cortex (that's smALFF), identified regions where smALFF differed between (a small sample of) tinnitus patients and controls, and measured...

@Daniel Lion ELI5: This paper is actually hot off the press, and only exists in abstract form at the moment. So I can only go by what's in the abstract. According to that, this is another study to investigate resting state connectivity, but unlike the other study, it zoned right in on a...

For those interested and/or scientifically inclined, an upcoming special topics issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience will be dedicated to tinnitus/hyperacusis issues. Here's the link...

ELI5: This study measured the "functional connectivity" of the brain's "resting-state networks" in 40 tinnitus and 40 non-tinnitus participants. By "functional connectivity", they mean "brain regions that activate/deactivate in relative synchrony". And by "resting-state" they mean the brain...