Question:
Tinnitus is due to Correlational Opponent Processing. COP theory is at http://www.enticypress.com from COP theory: "According to Gutin, Oliwenstein, and Mestel (1993), world wide there are only 200 serious investigators pursing the auditory system. Their work has significant impact on the thousands of others who study psychological, neurological, and physiological aspects of the auditory system. The hearing nerve system consist of about 16,000 hair cells and their cilia in four parallel rows, one inner and three outer rows. (Note: four moments suffice to create a Pearson system (Cacioppo & Dorfman, 1987)). Each hair cell is connected to about 100 bristles or stereocilia. The hair cells are arranged in a row according to height. Strand like structures called tip links join each stereocilium to its tallest neighbor. This linkage allows for nerve stimulation only in the direction of front or back. This then allows for the correlational encoding of nerve stimulation. The opponent process we believe comes from the nerve cells coming from the brain to the auditory nerves. According to Gutin et al. (1993) the number of connections coming from the brain to the auditory nerves is significantly higher than the auditory nerves going to the brain. According to Drennan (1995) there are ~1,800 efferent connections from the brain to the cochlea and there are over 30,000 afferent nerves from the cochlea to the brain (temporal lobe). This contradicts Gutin et al. (1993) report. In addition according to Drennan (1995) there are four rows of hair cells, three inner and one outer. The hair cells provide the base for the cilia. There are ~12,000 outer hair cells in each row. A row would be make up of 100-150 stereocilia in 6 or 7 rows of sterocilia shaped in a W or V pattern. There are ~3,500 inner hair cells which each have 40-60 cilia shaped in a U pattern in 2 or 4 rows. Longer cilia are near the base of the U, V, or W and the shorter cilia are near the inside. Longer cilia are in the apical turn of the basilar membrane and the shorter cilia are in the basal turn. The cells fire only when pulled in one direction. Thusly, the cilia act as a rectifier only transmitting on the positive side of the acoustic wave. According to John M. Price (1994) the nervous system works both ways. This ultimately results in nerve cells responding to 2,000 Hz in the right ear eventually affecting the firings of the 2,000 Hz portion of the opposite cochlea. Tinnitus, a ringing in the ear, can actually produce sound (otoacoustic emissions) that others can hear also. Since sound is a wave function, wavelet theory seems to be a natural for explaining sound analysis. Stimuli wavelets are produced by sound. The opponent-process produces wavelets to control and integrate new stimuli wavelets produced by the environment. Since the auditory system may be the simplest example of correlational opponent process, systematic study of the auditory system may suggest other research avenues and strategies for other sensory systems."
Response:
- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -khogan1…@aol.com wrote: >To:alt.hypnosis, alt.psychology.nlp, alt.support.tinnitus >From: Kevin Hogan >RE: Excerpt from Forthcoming Book >Title: Tinnitus: Turning the Volume Down >———–Tinnitus Suffering and the Emotional Brain > Joseph LeDoux, professor of neuroscience at New York University >says that,
If you like this post and would like to receive updates from this blog, please subscribe our feed.