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Synopsis: Health: Illness: Nervous system diseases: Tinnitus:

Potential applications include chronic pain, epilepsy, tinnitus, phantom limb syndrome and other nervous systems disorders where the brain has overreacted to the loss of normal inputs.

#Mutebutton can train your brain to ignore tinnitus By Roger Dobson for the Daily mail Published:

23:02 GMT, 18 may 2015 A new device that stimulates the tongue may be a new way to tackle tinnitus.

Clinical trial results suggest it can reduce tinnitus loudness by an average of about 40 per cent.

Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the ear usually a ringing noise, although it can be pitched a high whistling or buzzing, ringing, or hissing.

although treatments such as maskers (ear-plugs that generate white noise to try to block out tinnitus noise), antidepressants,

or think differently about their tinnitus, can help. However, the Mutebutton is designed to gradually re-train the brain (via the nerves in the tongue)

in order to reduce the loudness of tinnitus. The stimulator is held between the lips and creates a mild current to stimulate nerves in sync with the sound played through the earphones.

The idea is that the brain gradually begins to play down the illusory sounds of tinnitus

In a trial at the National University of Ireland, the system was tested on 60 people who'd had tinnitus for longer than six months.

Tinnitus volume reduced by 42 per cent on average. The Mutebutton is likely to be available in the UK later this year.

'More evidence is needed on the effectiveness of this device before it can offer real hope to the millions of tinnitus sufferers across the UK.'

'Meanwhile, researchers have identified now the areas of the brain thought to be involved in tinnitus-with the hope that this new understanding could trigger new treatments.

Scientists at Newcastle University and the University of Iowa, in the U s.,have shown that more areas of the brain are involved in tinnitus than just the sound centre-the auditory cortex-which was thought previously to be responsible.

which lit up during times of loud and quiet tinnitus. Their findings might explain why the condition can be difficult to treat,

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