An effect that can occur in which tinnitus is reduced or suppressed for a period of time following hearing aid or tinnitus masker use. This inhibition may last from a few seconds to a few hours and sometimes even longer.

(REZ-oh-nance) The vibration of an object or a body of air where certain pitches are made louder. This is the effect noted when blowing over the top of a bottle.

The prolonging of a sound after the sound source has ceased. An echo within a room. Reverberation is caused by a lack of sound absorption materials on the walls, floor and ceiling.

A rare kind of hearing loss where the hearing loss is the reverse of most sensorineural hearing losses. With a reverse-slope loss, the hearing loss is greater in the low frequencies and the person may have normal or near normal hearing in the very high frequencies. People with severe reverse-slope losses have normal or near-normal speech […]

A test that monitors your eye movements in relation to your body rotation.

One of the two membranes between the middle and inner ear. The other membrane is the oval window. Since the cochlea is a closed system, filled with perilymph, when the stapes pushes the oval window in, the round window bulges out. This is necessary since fluid is not compressible. If the oval window did not […]