{"id":111860,"date":"2009-12-29T14:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2009-12-29T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:36:32","slug":"specially-modified-music-can-rewire-brain-alleviate-tinnitus-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/111860","title":{"rendered":"Specially Modified Music Can Rewire Brain & Alleviate Tinnitus | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ear-ipod-web\"Tinnitus, the\u00a0perceived<\/a> ringing and buzzing in one’s ears, may not be fully understood, but what is known is that it can severely disrupt a person’s life. Treatment for the condition has been unreliable, but now scientists are reporting a new way to turn down the ringing by turning up music<\/a>, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

Scientists altered participants’ favourite music to remove notes which matched the frequency of the ringing in their ears.\u00a0After a year of listening to the modified music, individuals reported a drop in the loudness of their tinnitus [BBC News<\/a>]. Participants who listened to music in which notes of a different frequency were removed reported no such improvement. The treatment could be a cheap way to help the three percent of the population that suffers from tinnitus, say the researchers, who published their findings<\/a> in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The idea is to remove the spectrum of noise linked to tinnitus from the music a person listens to so that the area of the brain associated with that frequency will not be as active. <\/span>The researchers propose that the therapy might work by re-wiring parts of the auditory cortex that have become over-active to instead tune into surrounding\u2014but different\u2014tones. Another possibility is that with deprivation, these specially tuned auditory neurons would undergo “long-term depression,” causing them to become less active overall [Scientific American<\/em><\/a>]. How <\/span><\/span>i<\/span>ronic<\/span> that one of the causes of ringing ears may also be the solution.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Image: flickr \/ <\/em>Neil T<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Tinnitus, the\u00a0perceived ringing and buzzing in one’s ears, may not be fully understood, but what is known is that it can severely disrupt a person’s life. Treatment for the condition has been unreliable, but now scientists are reporting a new way to turn down the ringing by turning up music, according to a new study. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}