Tinnitus retraining therapy Tinnitus retraining therapy Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) is a form of habituation therapy designed to help people who suffer from tinnitus, a ringing, buzzing, hissing, or other sound in the ears when no external sound is present. Two key components of TRT directly follow from the neurophysiological model of tinnitus. One of these principles includes directive counseling aimed at reclassification of tinnitus to a category of neutral signals, while the other includes sound therapy which is aimed at weakening tinnitus related neuronal activity. The goal of TRT is management of tinnitus; there is no evidence that TRT can attenuate or
Mind–body dualism main objections to dualistic interactionism is lack of explanation of how the material and immaterial are able to interact. Varieties of dualism according to which an immaterial mind causally affects the material body and vice versa have come under strenuous attack from different quarters, especially in the 20th century. Critics of dualism have often asked how something totally immaterial can affect something totally material—this is the basic "problem of causal interaction". First, it is not clear "where" the interaction would take place. For example, burning one's finger causes pain. Apparently there is some chain of events, leading from the burning