Headphones that swap sounds from one ear to the other could be a radical new treatment for tinnitus — the ringing noise in the ears that affects around five million people in the UK.When a noise comes from the wearer’s right-hand side, it is picked up by a microphone in the headphones and re-routed to the left ear. The opposite happens with sounds emanating from the left.Scientists think jumbling the direction of sound, with the eyes telling the brain it’s coming from one place but the ears telling it the opposite, helps to ‘rewire’ the auditory nerve (which connects the ear to the brain). And this ‘turns down’ the tinnitus.
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