Editing White noise (section)

===Tinnitus treatment===
White noise is a common synthetic noise source used for sound masking by a [[tinnitus masker]].<ref>{{ cite book|last=Jastreboff |first= P. J.|chapter= Tinnitus Habituation Therapy (THT) and Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)|title= Tinnitus Handbook|location= San Diego|publisher=Singular|year= 2000|pages=357–376}}</ref> [[White noise machine]]s and other white noise sources are sold as privacy enhancers and sleep aids (see [[music and sleep]]) and to mask [[tinnitus]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Evidence based complementary intervention for insomnia |journal=Hawaii Med J |volume=61 |issue=9 |pages=192, 213 |date=September 2002 |pmid=12422383 |url=http://cogprints.org/5032/1/2002_H.M.J_White-noise_for_PTSD.pdf |last1=López |first1=HH |last2=Bracha |first2=AS |last3=Bracha |first3=HS}}</ref> The Marpac Sleep-Mate was the first domestic use white noise machine built in 1962 by traveling salesman Jim Buckwalter.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Green|first=Penelope|date=2018-12-27|title=The Sound of Silence|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/style/white-noise-machines.html|access-date=2021-05-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Alternatively, the use of an AM radio tuned to unused frequencies ("static") is a simpler and more cost-effective source of white noise.<ref>{{Cite journal | issn = 0016-867X | volume = 58 | issue = 2 | pages = 28–34 | last = Noell | first = Courtney A |author2=William L Meyerhoff  | title = Tinnitus. Diagnosis and treatment of this elusive symptom | journal = Geriatrics | date = February 2003 | pmid=12596495}}</ref> However, white noise generated from a common commercial radio receiver tuned to an unused frequency is extremely vulnerable to being contaminated with spurious signals, such as adjacent radio stations, harmonics from non-adjacent radio stations, electrical equipment in the vicinity of the receiving antenna causing interference, or even atmospheric events such as solar flares and especially lightning.