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  1. Robert Fahey

    Negative association with high-pitched tones

    Here's a compilation of horror movie deaths. Notice a common strain through all of them? They all employ a high-pitched shrieking, scraping sound at the "money shot" to help raise our hackles. We associate such sounds with high tension, high suspense. Basically, high stress. It's no wonder we...
  2. Robert Fahey

    To heck and back

    Tinnitus started during a low point in my life. A bunch of stress "pancakes" dropped on my plate faster than I could eat them: Aug. 2011 -- Second son born, colicky baby. Oct. 2011 -- Mother dies of complications from MS. Dec. 2011 -- Workplace quakes with talk of buyout, layoffs etc. Dec...