Long after damage has occurred to a person’s hearing, some people still experience persistent tinnitus—the perception of a buzzing, ringing, or hissing sound—that can’t be accounted for by actual ...

Individuals with chronic, moderate tinnitus do more poorly on demanding working memory and attention tests than those without tinnitus, according to research conducted at the University of Western ...

Regularly using a mobile phone for at least four years seems to be associated with a doubling in the risk of developing chronic tinnitus (persistent ringing/roaring/hissing in the ear), indicates a ...

Tinnitus has long been treated as a niche ear problem, a background hum that medicine struggles to quiet. Now, a wave of ...

Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and Germany's Technische Universität München say they've uncovered the brain malady responsible for tinnitus and for chronic pain — the ...

Tinnitus, a chronic ringing or buzzing in the ears, is associated with changes in certain networks in the brain, and those changes cause the brain to stay more at attention and less at rest, a ...

If you suffer from tinnitus, you know how annoying that persistent ringing can be, but a team of researchers has found a ...

Background: Chronic tinnitus is a commonly occurring symptom of the auditory system. Epidemiological studies assume a lifetime prevalence in men and women of 3.5% for chronic tinnitus requiring ...

An accomplished acoustic sound engineer who feared chronic tinnitus could lose him his job killed himself, a coroner has heard. Dr Mark Lawson, who had a PhD in acoustics, felt "desperate" after ...