Given that fusiform cells from non-tinnitus mice display control-level KCNQ2/3 currents 7 days post noise exposure (Li et al., 2013), our results suggest that it is the recovery in KCNQ2/3 channel activity, not the lack of reduction in KCNQ2/3 currents, which is linked with the resilience to tinnitus. This evidence concerns the gene KCNQ2 and Tinnitus.