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Select the hearing pattern that best matches your audiogram. Gentle, wide compensatory boosts make therapy sound richer — without harshness.Preset-defined peaking filters (Q=0.4, max 9 dB) scaled by a global intensity multiplier. Changes are applied in real time while a session is playing.
⚠ Not medical advice — consult a hearing healthcare professional for an accurate audiogram.
After exposure to a soft focused sound at your tinnitus frequency, some people experience brief relief. This test measures whether — and by how much — your tinnitus quietens afterwards. Run it no more than once per week. Residual inhibition (RI): post-stimulatory suppression via lateral inhibition in the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN). Narrow-band noise (Q=8) at F0 for 60 s. RI magnitude correlates with therapeutic response in some models.
Bluetooth headphones add 100–300ms of delay, which makes pairing a sound with a movement unreliable. This test gives a rough estimate of your hardware's delay. For Touch & Sound mode, wired headphones are strongly recommended. LDAC/AAC/SBC codecs add ~100–300ms latency. The Shore device achieved sub-millisecond auditory–somatosensory timing with electrical stimulation; a self-timed voluntary action cannot match that precision, and Bluetooth delay degrades it further. This test is an estimate (it includes your own reaction-time variance); use wired output for bimodal.
Log how you’re feeling — after 7+ sessions, patterns emerge that help identify your personal triggers.
Start therapy 30–60 minutes after exercise — your brain is primed for learning. The boost lasts about 90 minutes.
Most people think tinnitus is a problem inside the ear. In most cases, the ringing you hear is actually generated by the brain. Damage to tiny hair cells in the cochlea reduces the signal reaching the auditory brain. In response, the brain "turns up the volume" (central gain) to compensate. This creates spontaneous hyperactivity that the brain interprets as sound.
Tinnitus is a neuroplastic response to partial deafferentation. Reduced cochlear input triggers homeostatic plasticity in the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) and auditory cortex, upregulating synaptic gain to maintain average firing rates. This leads to spontaneous, hypersynchronous activity perceived as phantom sound.
Broadband noise or music with a narrow gap (notch) at your exact tinnitus frequency makes nearby brain neurons more active. Through lateral inhibition, they help quiet the overactive neurons responsible for the ringing. Over time, the brain reduces the spontaneous firing that creates the phantom sound.
By delivering energy to frequency regions flanking the tinnitus pitch (F0) while omitting energy at F0, TMNST strengthens lateral inhibition. This drives inhibitory input onto hyperactive neurons in the tonotopic map, promoting cortical reorganization and reduced hyperactivity.
The programme follows a deliberate sequence. Jumping ahead reduces effectiveness — each stage builds the foundation for the next.
Early stages (notched sound) prime the synaptic environment via homeostatic and inhibitory plasticity. This creates the conditions for later desynchronization (ACRN) and long-term depression (bimodal) protocols to more effectively reverse pathological synchrony.
Breathing slowly at around 5.5 breaths per minute aligns with your heart’s natural resonance. This creates a calming physiological wave that helps separate the brain’s stress centers from the sound-processing areas — reducing distress even if the ringing continues.
0.1 Hz (5.5 bpm) breathing maximizes heart rate variability (HRV) and baroreflex sensitivity. Increased vagal signaling to the nucleus tractus solitarius downregulates HPA-axis activity and uncouples amygdala-driven distress from auditory cortex activity.
Tinnitus neurons often fire in synchronized bursts, like a crowd clapping together. ACRN uses four carefully spaced tones played in varying order around your tinnitus frequency. This disrupts the rhythm, breaking up the synchrony and often making the sound less intense.
Pathological synchrony and phase-locking occur in DCN and auditory cortex networks. ACRN delivers tones at specific offsets (e.g., ×0.773, ×0.903, ×1.107, ×1.294 of F0) to induce coordinated reset, shifting populations toward a desynchronized state via plasticity.
By precisely timing a gentle body sensation (e.g., jaw or neck input) just before a sound reaches the brain, we create a stronger inhibitory effect on tinnitus-generating neurons than sound alone. This leverages natural brain pathways for better results.
Precise bimodal pairing (somatic input leading auditory by ~20 ms) induces long-term depression (LTD) in fusiform cells of the DCN via trigeminal-auditory convergence and spike-timing-dependent plasticity.
Slightly different frequencies played in each ear create a perceived “beat” that the brain follows. Slow beats (e.g., 1.5 Hz delta) help with deep sleep; faster ones (e.g., 40 Hz gamma) may support brain repair and learning states.
Binaural beats drive auditory steady-state responses (ASSR) to entrain cortical oscillations. Delta promotes slow-wave sleep; gamma entrainment has been linked to enhanced plasticity and microglial activity.
The brain turns up anything it flags as important or threatening. Through structured retraining (like CBT for tinnitus), we teach it the ringing is safe and unimportant — like background fridge noise. The brain’s “volume knob” naturally lowers over time.
Habituation restores thalamic sensory gating. Cognitive reappraisal reduces limbic (amygdala) tagging of the signal as salient, allowing the thalamus to filter it as non-relevant background activity.
Exercise releases “brain fertilizer” (BDNF). Doing your sound or retraining work while levels are elevated helps form stronger, longer-lasting neural changes.
Aerobic activity induces a BDNF spike that enhances synaptic tagging and LTP. Performing plasticity-targeted exercises within this post-exercise window (~30–90 min) augments reorganization.
Simple actions like humming or extended exhales stimulate the vagus nerve — your body’s built-in relaxation pathway. This quickly shifts the nervous system toward calm, even in seconds.
Laryngeal vibration and physiological sighs activate vagal afferents, enhancing NTS signaling and promoting rapid parasympathetic dominance and baroreflex sensitivity.
A 30-second briefing so the session itself can stay quiet and focused.
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Sound therapy is supportive, not curative. Many people experience reduced distress from tinnitus over weeks of daily use, but outcomes vary and a meaningful share of users see no measurable change. Tinnitus is frequently a symptom of an underlying medical issue (hearing loss, jaw or neck problems, medication side effects, vascular issues, and rarely more serious conditions). Always consult an audiologist or ENT before starting any sound-therapy routine — especially if your tinnitus is recent.
Sound therapy works at low, comfortable volume — at or just below the loudness of your own tinnitus, not above it. Never use this app at uncomfortable or unsafe listening levels. Prolonged high-volume audio can damage hearing. Start with master volume low and increase only to a setting that feels gentle.
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