cure for tinnitus discovered ??

Danly · Post by **Danly** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:30 am

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpres ... 841471875A

jzombie · Post by **jzombie** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:41 am

sign me up!

suppositron · Post by **suppositron** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:47 am

What the hell would the vagus nerve have to do with tinnitus? Human brain, you crazy.

That would be sweet as hell if it worked though.

supafuzz · Post by **supafuzz** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:46 am

sorry could you speak a little louder..I have this ringing in my ears and cant make out the words coming from your mouth..

hope it works

Recycled_Brains · Post by **Recycled_Brains** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:47 pm

suppositron wrote: That would be sweet as hell if it worked though.

They're saying that it DID.

supafuzz · Post by **supafuzz** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:30 pm

Recycled_Brains wrote:
suppositron wrote: That would be sweet as hell if it worked though.
They're saying that it DID.

doesn't mean it's true....that it does work...it remains to be seen if it's temporary or permanent...

nick_a · Post by **nick_a** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:16 pm

I'll take one and I can pay

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 9:09 pm

I'll happily have my vagus nerve stimulated.

If this does work, it could be really fantastic.

finleysound · Post by **finleysound** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:34 pm

Dang - that could be really cool. How the heck are they able to tell the treated rats aren't experiencing tinnitus anymore? Have they also figured out how to talk in rat?

jlovejoy · Post by **jlovejoy** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:37 pm

finleysound wrote:How the heck are they able to tell the treated rats aren't experiencing tinnitus anymore?

It seems they are judging by the lack of bodily and behavioral symptoms associated with tinnitus: "When we paired tones with brief pulses of vagus nerve stimulation, we eliminated the physiological and behavioural symptoms of tinnitus in noise-exposed rats."

supafuzz wrote:doesn't mean it's true....that it does work...it remains to be seen if it's temporary or permanent...

Personally, if I had tinnitus, I'd be willing to take this temporary solution if it turns out it isn't permanent. That is, if it doesn't reveal itself to have some crazy horrible side-effects.

edit: And, er, if it didn't mean a scientist had to follow me around with a machine, electrically stimulating my vagus nerve when I needed to better hear. Perhaps a less disruptive/intrusive method. . . It's a step in the right direction, though!

strdsk · Post by **strdsk** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:45 pm

In the time I spent working in a hearing aid dispensary, I saw some drugs and even use of hearing aids that helped ease the symptoms of the ringing. Still far from curing it though...hope this works!

germaniac · Post by **germaniac** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:13 am

So the scientists are saying, What happens in vagus, stays in vagus. . . .

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:47 pm

NICE.

And... as far as having a scientist following me around, stimulating my vagus nerve... well, I guess my willingness to put up with that would have a lot to do with the nature of the scientist. For instance, an annoying, yappy scientist, who's always asking me for money and eating BK? I'm not sure I could do it.

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:28 pm

Link is expired, but I'm pretty sure this is the same article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/ja ... e-tinnitus

Very cool!

Osumosan · Post by **Osumosan** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:57 pm

Interesting, although if the brain is compensating for hearing loss what kind of internal frequency response would one expect if the brain no longer makes that compensation?

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