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This past Sunday the ATA sponsored a live webinar that includes some of the researchers involved in the TIDE study. I'm viewing the recording right now but paused it to share the link here. The discussion is conversational and easy to follow and the entire video is about 1 hour long. So far...

It seems like it's been quite a while since @gillme and I was at ARO this year. If you recall, Tinnitus Hub had a booth there, and one day, Stephane Maison, an audiologist and well-known tinnitus researcher from Harvard, Mass Eye and Ear Hospital, stopped by to let us know that he would be...

Hi @Josh59, I've heard back from Stephane Maison. The publication associated with his ARO poster is available at this link. About solutions that could reduce hyperactivity in the brain he replied: I ran a PubMed search on Polley DB and got about 79 hits. Some of the publications are...

Hi @ZFire. The NHANES definition of tinnitus is one of several others that make pooling data across countries difficult. Last year at the ARO, Christopher Cederroth related that they ran into this while studying whether there is a genetic basis for tinnitus. I recall a new study was needed...

Hi @Josh59, I went back and looked at the Neural Signatures poster; the title of it is 'Evidence of Cochlear Neural Degeneration in Normal-Hearing Subjects with Tinnitus.' Unfortunately, it won't download from the conference website, so I'll have to find out if it's OK for me to share it. In...

Hey @Nick47, your interest in AC102 is next... The authors of this podium presentation state that the underlying pathology of tinnitus is associated with cochlear neural degeneration and the brain's reaction to it. Although tinnitus is associated with hearing loss, often individuals presenting...

Hi @ZFire, I'm starting to answer some of the questions related to the ARO 2024 meeting. So here goes: This poster explored the use of MEMR as a biomarker of cochlear injury in tinnitus (although the abstract mentioned the use of OAEs and EFRs, only MEMR data was presented). The study asks if...

I just looked at ATA's website. The vast majority of board members are audiologists. There are 3 researchers - Dr. Zhang who is recruiting for his clinical trial for blast-induced tinnitus, Marc Fagelson who is an educator of audiologists and Phil Gander who, according to people we met at ARO...

Today I attended, as a guest, a Zoom meeting of the Friends of the Congressional Hearing Health Caucus. There I virtually met Melissa who has a non-profit, The Ear Community, which is advocating for the US Congress to pass Ally's Act. Passing Ally's Act would make it a legal requirement that...

Hi @Watasha, many thanks for flagging this! I sent a thank you message to Texas Roadhouse thru the contact page on their website. I can understand why they donated to the ATA, however given the size of the donation I do hope Texas Roadhouse will, in some way, advise and hold the ATA...

Received this update today from ATA. I guess COVID-19 is the reason for the 1 year delay. Look at the bright side, May is only 3 months away! :whistle: -TC "The NIDCD is in the process of developing their 2022-2027 strategic plan now. They hope to have a draft available for public comment this...

Wow, it seems like eons ago that we sent in comments to NIDCD. I recently emailed them to inquire about when we might see the draft of their strategic plan and be able to comment. They have responded that it will be available sometime this year but they did not have a date yet. So we are...

Love this! I just submitted my comments. Thanks for posting @Diesel!

Even tho it is the same, it's progress. No one knows what people at the ATA do every day. In fact exactly how many people there are at the ATA seems to be a closely guarded secret. Compare that to BTA who are very transparent and actually doing things they believe will help the tinnitus...

I've been considering that. Something that suggests we would like to hear about the mission of the task force, what options they will be considering and ultimately the reason they've come to their future final decision. If the email address we used did not reach the board, we could ask if our...