Tinnitus Is Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function [View all]

https://www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function

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"Tinnitus is a debilitating medical condition, whereas sleep is a natural state we enter regularly, yet both appear to rely on spontaneous brain activity. Because there is still no effective treatment for subjective tinnitus, I believe that exploring these similarities might offer new ways to understand and eventually treat phantom percepts."

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A 'phantom percept' is when our brains fool us into thinking we are seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling something that is not there, physically speaking.

Many people experience phantom percepts only during sleep, but for about 15 percent of the world's population, an inescapable noise rings in their ears during waking hours, too.

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"We could actually see these sleep problems appear at the same time as tinnitus after noise exposure," Milinski told ScienceAlert. "This suggested, for the first time, a clear link between developing tinnitus and disrupted sleep."

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