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Is there any way we can get both parties to at least mention tinnitus during this election? Should we hire a lobbyist? Organize a special interest group? :D Tim Walz has tinnitus and Vance has to know people who have it. How do we get them to fight about who wants to help us more? How do we get...

Who is benefitting from the device not being released? Big Audiology doesn't want Auricle to succeed because they'll have too many customers. The US government likes paying over a billion in disability checks to veterans because no politician can think of any pork spending they'd rather spend...

It would be cool if something so simple could help alleviate our symptoms. I hope each of these treatments gets us a few decibels lower each time. None of these treatments have to be perfect; they all need to make a dent until our ears eventually return to something normal. In the links you...

I don't think it is going to be grifter copy-cats that do anything to improve our situation, but if Dr. Shore's device can actually alleviate our issue on some meaningful level, I think there will be a lot of other smart people who will try to improve upon her ideas. If her device works, I'd...

I'm not sure I see the relationship between this ALS drug and our hopes for Auricle to move quickly. The ALS drug had bad data and the FDA responded by saying, "your data is bad, it doesn't support your conclusions, and we won't be approving this garbage." This ALS drug sounds like Lenire, not...

Unfortunately, "nearly" can mean anything depending on the context. I'd imagine nearly ready in the medical device context is a couple of years away, even though we all want it to mean a couple of months. A product I'm working is "nearly ready" to be launched to the public. We promised...

Even if this only undid the noise for 2 hours at a time, it'd be great to have a few hours of quiet each day.

As a former academic, I don't see any overtly negative issues with Dr. Shore's switch of University of Michigan to University of California, Irvine. If anything, it shows me Dr. Shore is a big deal in her field. UC Irvine is not an easy place to find a position. Not only is it an R1 university...

This quote appears to be Musk marketing more than him telling the real story. Neuralink was rejected for human trials by the FDA in 2022 and only got the ability to do human trials on a limited number of people in 2023. This is much longer than 4 weeks and, sadly, different than commercial...

This Scientific American article is from July and clearly states, "Shore now wants to move the new method quickly through the approval process and then onto the market." I feel the two biggest issues here are: 1) none of us know what it takes to move something like this from academic prototype...

As already mentioned, the doom and gloom is a bit odd. Science moves slow and I don't think any of us actually understand the process of getting a device to market. The problem with the division of labor in society is that we superficially understand what everyone else does and think their job...

I'm hoping that things normalize for you.

While we had a really good post about the manufacturing of the device by @Jonno02, I wonder what the investment side of things look like. What do medical device investors want from Dr. Shore and what does the University of Michigan expect of her? Is Dr. Shore's choice to wait for publication...

Does anyone else go through these moments where they think, "Ok this is it, this is when my ears/brain finally calm down and this goes away." I get this in three different scenarios: 1. The tinnitus comes down from a spike and I feel that it could just keep going downwards. 2. I'll hear a...

Does anyone work in device manufacturing? If so, for a device similar to this, what would the timeline from working prototype to mass production to distribution look like? Are there a ton of manufacturers waiting for contracts to develop stuff like this or is there a long waiting list? How can...

I had been a bit too scared to look at Dr. Shore's answers and I finally worked up the courage to look over her responses today. Overall, I'm alright with them. I would have loved for her to say, "The device will be shipped to your house tomorrow and extended use will for sure bring back your...

I tested this with a friend the other day. Her tinnitus doesn't bother her all that much. We played music louder and louder until our eeeeee was masked. She needed to play the music much louder than me. Mine bothers me quite a bit and hers barely seems to matter. I don't get it. Maybe it...

I'd love to see more investment into the FDA so the process could be sped up for all drug and treatment approvals. There are probably so many things that we know nothing about that are making other people's lives completely miserable as well. However, there are issues with compassionate use...

I've never reviewed a medical science paper, but in the social sciences my job as a reviewer is to verify that the researcher's understanding of the established research, that their methods are sound and actually work for their research question, that they interpreted/analyzed their data...

The University of Michigan had a press release about it. Last time I quit a job, no one wrote a press release. :) And, she is still affiliated with the University of Michigan. While obtaining emeritus status doesn't mean she left on good terms, not obtaining this status would certainly mean...

I wonder how long it will take from journal publication and FDA approval to market availability? How long does it take for Auricle to figure out to how to mass produce this device with little error? And, how long will it take Dr. Shore/her team to develop a program to train people to use the...

I would not buy a knock off. I will pay the extra for the real thing. As for the tone matching, does it say in the study how they matched tones? I'm not good at matching my tone on my own either, but I imagine with a specialist, we could figure it out.

This is a big question that Dr. Shore brought up in one of her lectures. I think it was 10 years ago, she pointed out that the US gov pays a billion in disability payments to vets each year for tinnitus. It seems all governments should be investing in this at rates much higher than 5K euros...

Ignoring the work needed develop these devices, does stimulating the cochlea work to reduce tinnitus even temporarily? It'd be amazing if we were at a point where someone actually knows how to reduce tinnitus, but they just need to create a small device that can do the necessary work.

I agree with @dj_newark that Lenire seems to be taking forever partially because of COVID-19 slowing the review process down and the fact that Lenire seems less than effective. I feel the FDA is doing its job and protecting us from placebos and scams. And, it is annoying to have to wait for Dr...

I wonder what is going on behind the scenes with the development of Dr. Shore's device and setting up trainings for professionals to make sure they help their patients. Also, I'm curious why the news hasn't jumped all over this, yet. Not that I want to wait in line to try this out, but I'm kind...

I wonder if those of us in the United States can start putting money into a pre-tax health account in order to help save for the device. Will we be able to pay for the device/treatment via our pre-tax savings account? Does anyone know anything about Auricle's funding and developing the device...

Great job with all the updates and honest feedback. Thanks :)

Great work with the updates. "Furthermore, there is no return to baseline after using the device longer." This is unbelievable and something I didn't think was even possible. I hope this is true, I hope it works for all of us, and I hope the device doesn't lose any quality when it is mass...

I worry Musk has become too much of a cultural lighting rod for any discussion of his investments to be productive. Both support and critique of this device can be interpreted as "political," which adds to all of our pre-established bias of just wanting something to work and being let down by...

I'm skeptical that Dr. Shore's device is going to work for all us, but I have some hope that it might be helpful for some of us. It won't be a cure, but I'd be thrilled if it works as a treatment. The news usually does a really poor job of summarizing academic studies and presents the findings...

As an academic who has presented at social-science conferences I want to respectfully respond to a previous post. I don't know how medical conferences work, but I do have a fair amount of experience at social science conferences. I'd guess that most presentations at academic conferences are...

I wonder what goes into commercializing this? Training for audiologists/ENTs? Production of the machine? How much to skip the queue?

I looked in to the Neuralink a bit more. I see that the device has all sorts of little wires that are inserted into the brain that have the potential to send out electrical signals. This gives me a bit more faith and it would be nice to think that real purpose of Neuralink is to help those who...

I've struggled a bit lately. I never went to concerts or clubs, I don't own a TV, or a stereo. I never really wanted to be around noise. My favorite days were days in bed reading and writing, which aligned well with my career. I've haven't read a new book in 6 months. It really bums me out as I...

I appreciate the hopeful view, but most of this sounds too sci-fi and too far off into the future. How will this device send a signal to the right part of the brain without zapping the wrong parts? Treatments for Parkinson's require inserting a metal rod with an electrode at the bottom into the...

What exactly does this mean? Monitoring the brain and then using those signals to tell machines to do X, Y, and Z seems like a reasonable goal as academics have pulled this off and it is time for industry to jump in and build upon this work. However, writing the brain sounds a bit fantastic...

I have little faith in this being a treatment for tinnitus in the next 20 years. Instead, this seems like it will allow those who are paralyzed to communicate via computers and move things via robotic limbs in the next 10 years. This is amazing and truly a marvel, but it is a far cry from...

What makes me skeptical of this and Lenire is that they obviously have the money to do rigorous studies, but aren't doing them. From an outside perspective, there doesn't seem to be a legitimate reason that this clinic couldn't throw together a study with better sampling methods.

So this isn't about natural recovery, instead it is about this specific treatment taking two years for significant improvement? Also, what journal published this?

Just a non-medical thought on this, based on how our bodies react to any other drug, chemical, etc., is it really surprising that too much could be bad or that it would undo the positive results from smaller doses? I mean I think our bodies need a bit of salt, but if we drink salt water we go...

This is me being hopeful and thinking out loud. If this device works, I wonder if it will be most likely to help those who experience temporary tinnitus relief from listening to crickets chirping or other similar noises. I know Dr. Shore has discussed that being able to change the tone of...

Just a note, this is not how academia/academic research works. First, Dr. Shore has already achieved a good amount of success as an academic. I can't fully understand her CV, since I'm not from her discipline, but I can say that she made it to full Professor at an R1 research institution, which...

Changing the title of presentation could come from any number of places: 1) It could be that the people running the conference wanted the title changed for some reason. 2) It could be that the results were less solid than we had hoped. 3) It could be she had positive results and came up with an...

I'd be willing to spend the money tomorrow, if the stem cells weren't just inserted into my body, but actually targeted to the hair cells that got blasted by all that noise. I'd be a bit of a lab rat, if the doctor was basing their approach on an approach that helped animals in a documented...

I'm curious to hear how this plays out. I've read a few studies that showed that stem cells provided positive results for animals. Why aren't there more studies on treating humans for tinnitus with stem cells? Also, what worries me are the FDA warnings about stem cell treatments in general...

I was going through her proposal and I have a few questions that some of you might know the answers to (it is hard to read these when I'm just hoping that this will work and it'll potentially work for me). 1) What exactly does "no greater than a mild hearing loss up to 6 kHz" mean for her...

Thanks for the helpful responses. I never realized that clenching my jaw would change the noise a bit. Also, I went back a few pages and I saw the discussion of Dr. Shore's upcoming talk. According to her clinical trial listing, it was set to end on 2022-07-06. I work in the social sciences and...

They say that Dr. Shore's device may help people with somatic tinnitus, I worry that this is going to leave a lot of us out of the picture. Is there any research on her device for those of us who have tinnitus caused by loud noises?

I've been watching this thread with a bit of hope, despite the fact that I don't like how the study was done. First, we don't know what caused Tom's migraine. It could have been the treatment or it could have been that he has a history of migraines. There is no way to know. But, I think we all...