That is interesting because that data set seems inconclusive to me as far as tinnitus centralizing in the brain as time passes by. It's all over the place. It seems like an insignificant rise from the acute to post acute, and then after that it just fluctuates from time frame to time frame.



Or rather better said, that date set actually makes a strong case against the theory of tinnitus shifting from ears to brain over time. Seems to me it's about the same. The only significant change is from one ear to two years over time. I guess if most people experience trauma in both ears, it's very well possible one ear may be closer to the damage threshold at the time of the trauma while the other is healthier, so some people only develop tinnitus in one ear initially, and after awhile, the other just follows along.



Of course, to play a bit of devil's advocate, this has more to do with the perception of tinnitus, rather than where it's truly located. Just because we perceive it in the same place, ears, it doesn't necessarily mean it didn't shift to the brain. So the data doesn't support that theory, but it also can't disprove it.

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