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Hello and welcome back to software radio software radio on time on target. We have a very

special guest with us today. Dr. David Eagleman is going to talk to us about an issue that's near

into a lot of veterans. It's tenitis or ringing in the ears, I guess you could say. I was just telling

the doctor online, I know audiologists call it by a different name and we'll talk about that. I felt

kind of dumb when I found out that but it isn't a laughing matter. I mean a lot of us suffer with

this myself included. I've been suffering with this ringing in the ears for over 25 years and so

we're going to welcome Dr. Eagleman to the podcast. Thank you for taking the time with us today because

this is an issue that probably affects more than a billion people worldwide I would imagine.

Yeah, that's about right. Yeah, it's 15% of the population has this ringing in their ears and

obviously this is more common in the military because of the damage to the inner ear to what

are called the hair cells. They just happen to be called that in the inner ear which can get

damaged with really loud sounds like explosions and gunshots nearby, things like that and so

a lot of people suffer from this. For anyone who doesn't have tenitis or tenitis it can be pronounced

either way. For anyone who doesn't have this you know this is something that drives people

often to the point of to the brink of suicide. I mean it is a really big deal to have a constantly

screaming sound going on. It can be ringing or buzzing or cicadas or static noise but it's a sound

that never goes away and it can be really distressing to people. Right and before we get any further

and I do want to talk about this at length. You know Dr. Eagleman is an author, he's a neuroscientist,

he's a technologist, he's an entrepreneur and can you fill us our listeners in a little bit about

your own background? Yeah very briefly so I'm a neuroscientist at Stanford and I

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