million people listen to sounds, which does not exist - Diagnosis: Tinnitus. The root of the problem lies not in the ear, but in the brain. Remedy's hope for strong magnetic fields and acoustic music 'from
. Brain & Mind, January-February 2011
About three million people in Germany suffer from tinnitus. You hear a whistling, buzzing, hissing, or knocking noise - no external sound source. While some arrange with the ear noises, such as one in four suffers considerably lower. Insomnia, anxiety and depression occur and often to make life a misery on new therapeutic approaches, the physicians and Berthold Langguth young Tobias Klein reported from Tinnitus Centre, University of Regensburg in the new edition of Brain & Mind (1-2/2011).
neurologists already know that tinnitus does not arise in the ear, but in the brain. However, hearing loss can certainly cause the ringing in the ear: Those sound frequencies that are perceived at the worst, according to most of the pitch of the phantom noise. Obviously, the brain tries, the missing signals from the ear to compensate - and shoot it out over the goal.
Kleinjung Langguth and tapped in studies of patients in this faulty circuit by exposing the auditory centers of the individuals of strong magnetic fields. This transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) could actually reduce the symptoms in some cases significantly.
followed a different path researchers of the university of your sound for their patients with their favorite music, in which the frequencies have been filtered out around the Tinnituston before. Similarly, does a tinnitus neurostimulator, which has developed the Research Centre. Again, the patient exactly set to hear sound frequencies above and below the Tinnitustons. Both methods showed good results so far already.
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