Phillip Gander

Our study definitely highlights why so many treatments have been ineffective so far because we’re trying to target one of these brain regions, but what seems to be the case is that it actually is going to need to involve a bunch of areas at the same time, if that’s right, [treatment] will be very difficult, very complicated.

That’s why our experiment was really powerful: because it controls for all those other factors related to tinnitus— attention, fatigue— across different experiment conditions. If [the subject] was tired, he was tired across both conditions.

This is a big deal because tinnitus currently has no cure and no real effective treatment, probably in large part because it’s so variable in terms of, across different people that they experience it differently and across different people they react differently.

If we were to generalize across the population of people studied,... by Phillip Gander

If we were to generalize across the population of people studied, this seems to be more typical.

What we’re hoping is that the details of the brain networks and brain mechanisms we highlight in our paper can be starting points that people could target [for treatment].

It is such a rarity that a person requiring invasive electrode monitoring for epilepsy also has tinnitus that we aim to study every such person if they are willing.