Unification of Treatments and Interventions for Tinnitus Patients - UNITI

* Update (10 September 2020): The recording of Raj Shekhawat's TedX Talk is now available on the official TedX Talks Youtube channel. We invite you to have a watch! *

We are proud to announce that UNITI Advisory Board member Raj Shekhawat, Associate Professor at UCL London, will give a very surely inspirational TEDtalk at TEDxSFIT, on "Tears of joy: The magic of hearing".

This time, the event will be carried out fully online, and free registrataion is available following this link, or by clicking on the image below.

We congratulate our dear colleague Raj very much to this opportrunity and are certain that everyone attending will derive great benefit!

We are happy to report that the second virtual UNITI team meeting, UNITI TV, has already taken place on July 28, 2020, with many partners of the consortium throughout Europe coming together to share the project's current state of progress.

We are grateful for everybody's input and great efforts in preparing for the start of the UNITI clinical trial, especially given the still ongoing special circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic.

We're even more thankful for the support of our great team and are already looking forward to the next edition of UNITI TV, and project advances to be shared and reported!

Although many people with tinnitus also suffer from hyperacusis (enhanced sensitivity to sounds), estimates of the association between hyperacusis and tinnitus are missing. A team of researchers coordinated by Chris Cederroth has now investigated this relationship for the first time. The results of this Swedish study have now been published in J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(8), 2412; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082412 (registering DOI)

Although the TRI 2020 Tinnitus Conference in Vancouver, CA, had to be postponed, the organizers published an abstract book of the conference which provides an impressive overview about the quality and diversity of the tinnitus research field. This abstract book is the best proof, that tinnitus research is alive and more active than ever before.

A description about UNITI can be found on page 75.

The current newsletter of the Bavarian Research Alliance (Bayerische Forschungsallianz) contains a detailed description of the UNITI project. At this point we would like to thank our colleagues of the Bavarian Research Alliance once again for their great support of our EU projects. read article

Image Source: BayFor Newsletter April 2020