Tinnitus

Neuroscience Cortical Plasticity Lab. We have developed a therapy to help brain injury patients fully reengage in life. For the past several years, we have performed research on how vagus nerve stimulation helps patients recover from disorders such as tinnitus and chronic pain, stroke, traumatic brain injury, autism, and schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. During this time, I learned various research skills such as handling laboratory animals such as rats, running lab rat behavior shifts,…

Clinical Presentation of Paget's disease of bone Symptoms of Paget's disease Paget's disease often has no symptoms and many people don't know they have the condition. The most common symptom is bone pain, but may include joint pain and signs of a nerve being compressed or damaged. Bone pain Bone pain caused by Paget's disease has been described as a constant, dull pain deep within the affected part of the body. The pain is usually worse at night when the patients are lying down. The affected…

Background Over the past years, a great amount of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted to assess the effectiveness and/or the efficacy of numerous psychotherapies for a wide range of outcomes. While it is commonly accepted that psychotherapy could be considered effective and in the case of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) comparable to pharmacotherapy, the question about the quality of the evidence in the field remains controversial. Some empirical…

Glue Ear: A guide for those working with young children (1) What is glue ear? Glue ear, also known as otitis media with effusion (OME), is a common condition among young children. It is supposedly most common between the ages of 1 and 6 {2}. The ear is divided into three parts - the inner, middle and outer {3}. Glue ear occurs when the middle ear becomes filled with a sticky fluid, similar to glue {3}. When it comes to hearing, vibrations travel through the three parts of the ear until they…

• Sensorineural is related to how the nervous system transmits that sound to the brain. Conductive The outer ear gathers sound waves from the environment and funnels them into the ear canal. At the end of the canal, the waves hit the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. Three tiny bones in the middle ear conduct the vibrations from the eardrum to the cochlea (a spiral-shaped chamber that looks a bit like a snail) in the inner ear. If anything interferes with the transfer of sound waves up to this…

Symptoms usually begin in early adulthood but can begin in middle age if it is mild. Symptoms can include schwannomas, brain tumors, tinnitus and hearing loss or deafness, cataracts, spinal tumors, balance problems, muscle atrophy, focal neurological issues, headaches, and pain. Neurofibromatosis affects the brain, nerves, and spine. Doctors generally use the same diagnostic tests for…

Ms. M is a 27-year-old women who recently moved from her hometown Minneapolis, Minnesota to Salt Lake City, Utah for a job offer. She lives alone and works as an English teacher at the East High School in Salt Lake City since the beginning of the school year after her graduation last summer. Since it is the first time she has her own classes, it is sometimes quite stressful for her even if she likes her job. The past few years, she reported numerous neurological complaints which came and went…

malignant transformation of renal cysts into renal cell carcinoma. Approximately 50% of patients with von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease have retinal hemangioblastomas, a finding absent in the case vignette. Endolymphatic sac tumors causing hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo, and facial weakness are also another presenting feature of VHL[3].Note that the patient in this case vignette does have an abnormal ophthalmologic exam. The boy has retinal lesions, called astrocytic hamartomas (or "phakomas"),…

Ludwig van Beethoven’s early life was not filled with hardships but later in life, the composer came face to face with many illnesses that greatly impacted his compositions as well as the ability to compose. Suffering from Tinnitus, hearing loss to be specific, Beethoven lost his communication with people which, to begin with, he did not even have much before the health issue. He was only open with his closest friends. Throughout his entire life, Ludwig was never an outgoing…

Noise is defined as “unwanted sound or loud discordant or disagreeable sound or sounds.” (HSA). When “vibrations are transmitted through the air in the form of waves, they strike the ear, these waves produce the sensation of sound” (How Stuff Work). Our ears are divided into three sections each section with its own parts and functions play their part in enabling us to hear a noise or sound. The outer ear collects and carries vibrations (sound) to the middle ear where it is amplified allowing…