It blows my mind that if Dichonic's success rate is as good as it is claimed, there is really little information about it.
Do you know was the 13 hours' suppression achieved with an hour of treatment?
But a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial would be welcome news, wouldn't it? And as jazz said, a publication in a peer-reviewed journal is essential...
I've got the urge to know how Dichonics works with a larger test population, and how it compares to placebo treatment, and whether after all said and done it would be seen fit to be included in peer-reviewed journals.
It's a most horrendous thought to even think about a possibility that decades from now it was discovered Dichonics worked for a significant percentage of tinnitus sufferers, but due to funding issues it was back then (read: now) unsuccessful to launch.
Fingers crossed!
Markku -
Yeah, it blows my mind too. This was an adventure for me in October. After the trip, I had a "private conversation" with a few people on this website, telling them about my trip. I wanted to keep it hush-hush, so that I could stay first in line to get the product. Unfortunately, I don't know what's going on any longer.
Dr. Dalton is a unusual man. He is has been around a long time. He's a legitemate academic, with many papers published in professional journals. Of course he has a patent on his system, which he quit protective about, and he does not want to leak certain key details.
In the 1970's, he was doing experiments on the neurological signals in the audiological system of monkeys. He connected electrodes to various key organs, such as the dorsal and ventral coclear nucleus and the superior olivary complex. Then he monitored how sounds were processed by the monkey's brain. Particularly important is the how the signals from the left and right ears differ in intensity and phase shift.
By the way, Dr. Dalton has had tinnitus since he was a teenager. During the monkey experiment, he kept hearing a "click" when he listened to the signal processed in the monkey's brain. He asked the other researchers if they heard a "click", but no, they didn't. Based on this accidental observation, he discovered that tinnitus sufferers experience a unique phase shift between the two ears. He then developed a testing method called "Minimal Audiotory Intensity Difference" (MAID), that can be used to test abnormalities in hearing. MAID can also be used to test dislexia and autism.
Dr. Dalton is accomplished at building electronics circuits. He's a ham radio operator. In my opinion, he's a modern age Thomas Edison with an adept abiltiy to understand the auditory system like it's a radio with components. He explained that tinnitus causes efferent nerve excitation, from neural "components" that compare left and right ear signals . The key to stopping tinnitus is to suppress/inhibit the excited efferent nerve.
He explained a lot to me, and I could barely grasp it. I tried it out, and it seems to work. But it's only temporary, and something that must be used on a regular basis. They were doing a lot of monitoring on me during that hour, which is something that I did not quite understand.
Delivering it over the Internet is an ideal way to use this thing. I'm not entirely sure how the business will be run, and if there will be somebody on the other end adjusting the signal. Every person has a signal tailored to their tinnitus. This isn't a signal that somebody came up with in whilly-nilly fashion.
I asked the ATA's Tinnitus Today to interview him. They may be doing a story. I practically begged the ATA Technical Committee to take a serious look at his work. No reply from them. Thank you, ATA.
My gut feeling: Dichonics isn't a cure, but I think it may help a lot of people. I didn't use it long enough to form much more of an opinion.
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