Qing Tang

US Patent:

8357102, Jan 22, 2013

Filed:

Dec 5, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/746171

Inventors:

Qing Tang - Irvine CA, US
Jeffrey Alan Carroll - Corona CA, US

Assignee:

The Regents of the University of California - Oakland CA

International Classification:

A61B 5/00

US Classification:

600559, 607 55

Abstract:

Methods and devices for treating tinnitus in human or animal subjects wherein the subject is caused to perceive a tinnitus suppressing sound which fully or partially suppresses the subject's tinnitus. In some embodiments of this method, the subject selects a sound that he or she perceives to be the same as the tinnitus and that sound (or a similar sound that is complementary to the subject's perceived tinnitus) is then used as the tinnitus suppressing sound. In other embodiments, the tinnitus suppressing may be a sound that has previously been determined to suppress tinnitus in a substantial number of subjects.