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Visual snow syndrome (VSS) is an uncommon neurological condition in which the primary symptom is that affected individuals see persistent flickering white, black, transparent, or colored dots across the whole visual field.
Tinnitus affects 10–15% of people. [5] About a third of North Americans over 55 experience it. [136] It affects one third of adults at some time in their lives, whereas 10–15% are disturbed enough to seek medical evaluation. [137] 70 million people in Europe are estimated to have tinnitus. [138] [139]
The symptoms of vestibulocerebellar syndrome vary among patients but are typically a unique combination of ocular abnormalities including nystagmus, poor or absent smooth pursuit (ability of the eyes to follow a moving object), strabismus (misalignment of the eyes), diplopia (double vision), oscillopsia (the sensation that stationary objects in the visual field are oscillating) and abnormal ...
The total number of genes that contribute to eye color is unknown, but there are a few likely candidates. A study in Rotterdam (2009) found that it was possible to predict eye color with more than 90% accuracy for brown and blue using just six SNPs. [16] [17] In humans, eye color is a highly sexually dimorphic trait. [18]
In a specific case studied by Williams et al. 2008, a patient who received a left temporal lobectomy in order to treat epilepsy was diagnosed with musical hallucinations post-surgery. The patient also had multiple additional risk factors that could have accounted for the hallucinations including mild neuropsychiatric dysfunction and tinnitus. [12]
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Neuromonics is a non-invasive sound therapy used to manage tinnitus. The therapy involves a customized acoustic stimulus delivered through headphones for a prescribed amount of time each day. It is typically used as part of a comprehensive tinnitus management program that includes counselling, education, and support.