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TL;DR: In 144 Norwegian tinnitus patients, an online program of retraining therapy and CBT was linked to less tinnitus distress after 6 months, most in severe cases. With no comparison group, the program can’t take full credit. Key Findings 144 patients: A 6-h…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience used task-based functional MRI (fMRI), a brain-scan method that tracks blood-oxygen changes during a task, to show that misophonia and hyperacusis had partly different brain connectivity pa…
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TL;DR: A 2026 rat study in Neurobiology of Stress found that early-life visceral stress produced adult IBS-like symptoms alongside auditory brainstem sensitization and cochlear protein changes, giving a mechanistic explanation for sound sensitivity reported by…
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