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The Sound Barrier #2: The noise that isn't there
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:33:39
Publish Date: 2025-11-05 09:00:00
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Almost 15% of adults suffer from a persistent, often intolerable sound... that is literally just in their heads. Why does the brain do this to us? We help one of our listeners get some answers.


Guests: Stéphane Maison, director of the tinnitus clinic at Mass Eye and Ear; Susan Shore, professor emerita at the University of Michigan, and Dan Polley, tinnitus researcher at Mass Eye and Ear


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