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Tinnitus Quest is mentioned (at the end of the piece) in a recent Hello! news article about Star Trek: Star Trek actress, Mariette Hartley, 85, makes unexpected comments about William Shatner

It's the loudness chart from the 6-week pivotal crossover trial. That's one stumbling block with the 6-week crossover trial. Another one is that the control group also exhibited a placebo effect in Treatment 1. To the best of my knowledge, UMich hasn't publicly addressed that fact yet. Just on...

Thanks very much for writing that up - it helps clarify a few things. Given that Dr. Carlson is a surgeon, it makes a lot of sense that he would partner with Cochlear on R&D. As a side note, I think I remember reading somewhere that the intra-tympanic procedures may end up being used to...

Glad to hear you're doing well. And yes, a little age drop from the local pharmacist is always nice!

This thread has gotten a bit confusing, so I just re-read it to try to understand where we are regarding the various ongoing and completed trials. The Matthew Carlson trial that the OP originally referenced was completed, and all 22 participants experienced positive results. It seems, however...

How are you doing, Michael? You've been away for a while, did the spike subside?

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Notwithstanding the fact that the sham induced a placebo effect, you can't statistically validate the existing Treatment 1 loudness chart without actually having designed the entire trial as a single-arm trial. Ergo, Susan Shore's statement about how well the active treatment performed in...

After hundreds and hundreds of hours of research my unwavering opinion is that tinnitus is NOT caused by hearing damage; it's underlying cause is a neural gating deficit. Hearing damage (amongst other things) may result in lower upstream voltages consequently exposing the deficient gate...

There's no point in cutting and pasting TFI statistics because I'm only focusing on loudness reduction. Also, we don't need hunches, hope, or mystery. We need hard data. One breakthrough in Susan Shore's work lay in the fact that it would finally (as much as possible by today's standards in...

There's nothing hidden in that loudness chart. On the contrary, it's very clear for those willing to see it; the control didn't wash out either and exerted a negative effect on the treatment. Repeating their own spin won't change that fact.

This is definitely a discussion thread, but to be fair, you can only understand the delay if you acknowledge the problem within your own statement: That statement isn't conclusive because their own published data also indicates that the device isn't nearly as effective if preceded by a control...

Why don't you contact Peter Tass and let him know about Tinnitus Quest and the funding pipeline?

Yes, she was asked about this, and I believe the first time she referred to the "cross-over" effect was during the Tinnitus Hub Q&A. If you remember, at that time (a couple of years ago), she was asked specifically about the group that underwent the active treatment in weeks 13-18, and how...