If you were exposed to ‘white noise’ – a broadband sound signal – that contained a frequency gap, your brain would ‘hear’ a single-frequency sound for several seconds after the real signal had ended.

A new treatment that retrains part of the brain that processes sound may help silence tinnitus — a ringing in the ears that afflicts 10 percent of senior citizens and more than 40 percent of military ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area company is introducing a new technology that could help thousands of patients finally silence an irritating and debilitating condition. If you've ever had that ...

A therapy for tinnitus, the infuriating ringing in the ears that plagues millions of people, is finally on the cards. Simply learning to tell the difference between computer generated tones could help ...

David Hatt's eardrums had long absorbed the din from aircraft, hunting rifles and heavy machinery. The barrage hit an apex last summer when he lit an acetylene torch and accidentally sparked a fiery ...

Clinical trials of the new therapy, called Acoustic Coordinated Reset (ACR), have shown that it reduces the loudness and annoyance caused by tinnitus in seven out of 10 patients. Up to 10 per cent of ...

Alan Starr remembers being blown back by the bomb’s force. He had come to watch a friend cross the Boston Marathon finish line on that fateful April day. Starr, a 52-year-old audio engineer who makes ...

Is that ringing ears bad enough that you would implant a simulator in your neck just to be free of it? For thousands of Americans, the answer seems to be yes. A series of clinical trials for an ...

In one of the largest surveys on tinnitus so far, University of Michigan researchers participating in the Apple Hearing Study released data and insights Tuesday that could help lead to future ...

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