- Oct 24, 2017
- 849
- Tinnitus Since
- 10/2017
- Cause of Tinnitus
- one-sided hearing loss (of unknown origin)
What are the neurological mechanisms behind tinnitus?
Do you want to learn more about the origins of tinnitus?
Dearest Tinnitus Talk members,
As part of our 2020-2022 Strategic Plan, we are planning to expand the Tinnitus Talk website to be more than just a forum. We want to provide the community with objective, reliable and evidence-based resources. This will save our users the time and effort of sifting through hundreds of posts to find the information they seek, or reading hundreds of academic publications. It will also provide a counterbalance against the multitude of unverifiable (and sometimes misleading) opinions on the forum.
The first resource we plan to provide is an overview of "tinnitus models." By this we mean the main scientific theories on the origins of tinnitus — in other words, the underlying neurological mechanisms that cause the tinnitus signal. It's one of the most frequently asked questions we see around here; people want to understand what's going on in their brain. At the same time, we have not found any existing, comprehensive overview of tinnitus models anywhere online, and certainly not one that is also understandable for lay people. Hence, we truly believe we can create something of value to this community.
For this project, we partnered up with the University College London (UCL) Ear Institute. Specifically, we are collaborating with @Tori Kok, a PhD student at the institute. We are also working with Kate Yukhnovich, a PhD student from Newcastle University. Both Tori and Kate have a neurology background and are currently pursuing a PhD on the topic of tinnitus. Furthermore, we found two senior tinnitus researchers —Dr Giriraj Shekhawat (UCL) and Dr Will Sedley (Newcastle) — willing to validate the information before it's published.
What we would like to know from you is the following: What format would you like the resource to be in? By this we mean, would you like the information to be presented in the form of graphics, videos, blogs, podcasts, etc.? Would you like it to be short or very extensive? Would you like it to be interactive somehow? Would you like the information to be tagged or categorised somehow? Is there any additional data you'd like to see (e.g. links to articles)? Well, you get the idea — we need inspiration from you!
Once we've received some ideas from you, we will be turning these into a poll to decide on the final format.
We hope to have the resource published by early 2021. It's still quite a bit of work to prepare the content and find a nice user-friendly way of presenting it. If you want to volunteer to work on this with us behind the scenes, get in touch!
Do you want to learn more about the origins of tinnitus?
Dearest Tinnitus Talk members,
As part of our 2020-2022 Strategic Plan, we are planning to expand the Tinnitus Talk website to be more than just a forum. We want to provide the community with objective, reliable and evidence-based resources. This will save our users the time and effort of sifting through hundreds of posts to find the information they seek, or reading hundreds of academic publications. It will also provide a counterbalance against the multitude of unverifiable (and sometimes misleading) opinions on the forum.
The first resource we plan to provide is an overview of "tinnitus models." By this we mean the main scientific theories on the origins of tinnitus — in other words, the underlying neurological mechanisms that cause the tinnitus signal. It's one of the most frequently asked questions we see around here; people want to understand what's going on in their brain. At the same time, we have not found any existing, comprehensive overview of tinnitus models anywhere online, and certainly not one that is also understandable for lay people. Hence, we truly believe we can create something of value to this community.
For this project, we partnered up with the University College London (UCL) Ear Institute. Specifically, we are collaborating with @Tori Kok, a PhD student at the institute. We are also working with Kate Yukhnovich, a PhD student from Newcastle University. Both Tori and Kate have a neurology background and are currently pursuing a PhD on the topic of tinnitus. Furthermore, we found two senior tinnitus researchers —Dr Giriraj Shekhawat (UCL) and Dr Will Sedley (Newcastle) — willing to validate the information before it's published.
What we would like to know from you is the following: What format would you like the resource to be in? By this we mean, would you like the information to be presented in the form of graphics, videos, blogs, podcasts, etc.? Would you like it to be short or very extensive? Would you like it to be interactive somehow? Would you like the information to be tagged or categorised somehow? Is there any additional data you'd like to see (e.g. links to articles)? Well, you get the idea — we need inspiration from you!
Once we've received some ideas from you, we will be turning these into a poll to decide on the final format.
We hope to have the resource published by early 2021. It's still quite a bit of work to prepare the content and find a nice user-friendly way of presenting it. If you want to volunteer to work on this with us behind the scenes, get in touch!