Saturday, January 2, 2010

A cure for ringing in the ears - tinnitus

According to this report in Scientific American, individually designed music therapy might help reduce noise levels in people suffering from tinnitus, or ear ringing. The research has been done in Germany and an abstract with links to the the full study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists of the United States of America.

2 comments:

Claire said...

It's an interesting treatment. Here is a link to another report which gives a little more detail on how they actually "notch" this music.

http://marcslabs.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-edge-on-tinnitus.html

James Bash said...

Thanks Claire!