The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The neurons become non-selective, which means they now all respond to the same input. If you're really narrow, you only respond to one little bit of the cochlea. If you're broad, which happens after damage, because you're trying to respond to something, now everybody responds to every wiggle and jiggle in the ear.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Now, what has been shown in animal studies is that loud noise, which causes tinnitus, can lead to loss of that inhibition, so that can lead to hyperactivity. But tinnitus can also be due to increased synchrony, and that informs different strategies going forward.