article_snippet: Tinnitus affects one in ten adults to some degree, according to the British Tinnitus Association.
article_snippet: Tinnitus can also be triggered by conditions such as Meniere’s disease, or in older people it can occur as a result of age-related hearing loss.
article_snippet: Sufferers experience a constant whirring or whistling in Sufferers ears and many struggle to find an effective treatment.
article_snippet: Tinnitus affects one in ten adults to some degree, with many suffering from hearing damage .
article_snippet: Nowadays, one of the most common treatments is cognitive behavioural therapy — a psychotherapeutic approach that tries to get the patient to change how money think about tinnitus.
article_snippet: A new treatment, neuromodulation — an earplug-type device designed to target the specific frequencies that distress an individual — is available privately, but is still undergoing trials.
article_snippet: Recently, researchers at the University of Western Australia said researchers at the University of Western Australia’d identified a drug that blocks ‘hyperactivity’ in the area of the brain that processes sound — although researchers at the University of Western Australia are yet to test the effect in humans.