A Tale of Tinnitus, for What It’s Worth
Stop, now, what’s that sound?
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4 min readJul 15, 2022
Nature is said to abhor a vacuum. The human ear and brain abhor silence. If auditory stimulation from the outside world is diminished, the brain and the ear will make up for it, creating phantom sounds that are usually labeled tinnitus.
Though it’s often used interchangeably with “ringing in the ears,” tinnitus can in…
