Tinnitus may be treatable with transcranial magnetic stimulation, according to the results of a small study published in the Annals of Neurology online on Dec. 23. The findings suggest that some phantom sounds are generated by abnormal activity in the brain itself.
“Controlled clinical trials are now necessary to evaluate whether this method can permanently reduce and thus cure tinnitus,” senior author Christian Gerloff, MD, from the University of Tuebingen in Germany, says in a news release. “Recently, neuroscientists have brought forward a new concept which postulates similarities between tinnitus and chronic pain. According to this concept, sounds that only the patient can detect might be some sort of ‘phantom’ auditory perception similar to phantom pain.”
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