Interesting. How do they know rats are suffering tinnitus?
I'd like to know the answer to this also.
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Interesting. How do they know rats are suffering tinnitus? Well, it's known that tinnitus is caused by false signals from the nerves in the ear to the brain. I would assume that they create the tinnitus in the same way that humans develop it - by loud noise, and that they have some way of measuring the nerve impulses in question both before and after treatment. But I agree, it would be nice if they had told us that. It is, however, only a news story not a journal article. |
Here is a link to a news clip that recently aired in Philadelphia on tinnitus: http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/health-trends%3A-ibuprofen%2C-tinnitus Listen towards the end of the clip... |
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