Good article, thanks for sharing. Seems like alot more people/scientists are now taking this affliction more seriously. I have hope there will be a solution sooner than later...

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

Thanks Bob

Interesting! (I ain't never heard o' no nucleus accumbens before.) : )

However, this doesn't explain why people with no hearing loss have T, or am I misunderstanding?

This ought to be reprinted in every journal read by ENTs so they would know we aren't just weaklings who can't learn to ignore T like most people.

I think they were only talking about one type of system damage but I would assume any type of damage done to the auditory system could cause noise. I believe my auditory damage was caused by medicine. Regardless I think this article points out that many people might have the tinnitus noise but never hear it because their brain wont allow it to enter their perception. There is something broken in our brains which is allowing tinnitus to enter our perceptions.

This leads me to believe that some people are just destined to get tinnitus. Everyone has hearing loss to some degree and it only gets worse as we get older. If a person's brain can't filter out the noise caused by the auditory system trying to repair itself that person will get tinnitus.

Anyway that's just my uneducated opinion on the article.

Ya know, now that I think about it, 50 million Americans with a broken limbic system is pretty shocking. This makes me wonder why the number is so high.

It also makes me think that if 50 million Americans had broken retinas in their right eye, or 50 million Americans had lost the use of three fingers, I bet it would be all over the news and the word "epidemic' would be bandied about. Like BluOcean said, I'm glad T is being taken more seriously by people/scientists.

thanks for directing me to all the good info at sciencedaily web site. it makes me feel better. thanks again.

I talked to my doctor about this and he said this is the same area of the brain that alerts us when something is painful. Chronic pain can also originate here when the brain incorrectly labels something as painful when it is not. In this way tinnitus and chronic pain are similar.

A similar article that says we have drain bramage with the gateway. A normal healthy limbic system will stop the tinnitus from reaching the auditory system.

"They had noted a significant loss of volume in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), an area located in the frontal lobe of the brain, of people with tinnitus. The finding was intriguing because although this isnt an area of the brain that processes sound, it is an area that has the potential to modulate sensory informationsuch as soundbecause of its intimate connections with key structures in the limbic system. "


http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/news/releases/11/031611.htm

Thanks Bob - very interesting!

Well golly gee ain't I lucky, I have tinnitus and chronic pain:(