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16Jul09 The Mystery of Tinnitus

The New Yorker recently published an interesting article about Tinnitus. They quoted some very interesting statistics, which I emphisised in the quotes below.

Tinnitus—the false perception of sound in the absence of an acoustic stimulus, a phantom noise—is one of the most common clinical syndromes in the United States, affecting twelve per cent of men and [...]