Dr. Michael Kilgard
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We need to make tools to help someone like that.
Some of the people can reach levels.
The commonality is like 10%, 20% of people are going to have tenderness.
Almost everyone.
It's a huge number.
It's one of the most common.
It's the number one military disability.
So you get a 10% payment for the rest of your life.
So it's a billion dollars per year we pay for people with tinnitus.
You can't measure it objectively just like chronic pain.
You can't see it.
They don't want it.
But you develop it if you're in an aircraft carrier launching planes or you're blowing doors.
Playing headphones too loud.
These things are really a problem.
Those cells will get damaged.
The brain doesn't know.
If you're deaf in the natural world, you just die.
We didn't evolve to get used to loud sounds.
That didn't exist for thousands and thousands of years.