Traditional evidence-based approaches have so far failed to develop any (FDA or CE approved) treatments for tinnitus, after many years of tinnitus research.

It is time for a new approach: War On Tinnitus. This concept of war approach has been proven highly successful in fighting AIDS. It is a highly innovative way to find a solution for tinnitus in a short time frame, i.e., 3 to 5 years. To reduce and ideally abolish the sound – in contrast to most tinnitus studies that attempt to reduce the suffering associated with the tinnitus.

The approach is to develop treatments based on the concept of war, on how a war is fought: use whatever available relevant scientific information exists to create a strategy that is multimodal and surprising. The program consists of 8 different research approaches over a 4-year period. With a focus on the brain, as the brain is the generator of tinnitus, even when triggered from the ear. Read the full research paper here.

(this is the tinnitus activity in the brain of the undersigned, measured via EEG)

The ‘War On Tinnitus’ program has been developed and will be led by a team of highly experienced Tinnitus-research professionals:

Dirk De Ridder, Professor Neurosurgery, University Otago

Co-Founder BRAI3N-Centre for neuromodulation, Ghent

Divya Adhia & Matt Hall, research fellows at University of Otago.

The TinnitusFree Foundation aims to raise funds to cover the total cost of the ‘War On Tinnitus’ research project: €690.000 for the 4 year period.

For further info:
Frank van Hoorn
frank@tinnitusfree.eu
+ 31 654 798182.