If you are a biomedical scientist looking to figure out how to cure a disease, (tinnitus, nerve damage, fibromylagia) and apply your research on a clinical level to help patients who are suffering. The bullshit stacked against you is amazing.

Psychologist/psychiatrist dominate all the "research" grants, generic dull clinical trials on CBT and gabatein are going to dominate academic literature on the topic of peripheral neuropathy. For every one paper on pubmed that talks about "nerve regeneration" and deep biological topics, a hundred will discuss CBT and neurotransmitter based pain killers. A team of biologist working on treating nerve damage etiologically will not be taken seriously until they can display a large body empirical evidence in animal models over the course of decades. Meanwhile pyschologist and pyschatirst get dozens of NIH grants. Biomedical scientist depend entirely on venture capitalist until they show empirical evidence of effectivity is when they get NIH grants. Biomedical science requires lots of failure when experimenting on animal models, Meanwhile Psychologist can lecture rooms full of physicians on how tinnitus and horrifying nerve pain are "manageable.


Sources:
Tinnitus and nerve pain "research" has been hijacked by pyschologist stealing grants that could be going to biomedical research.
grantome.com/search?q=tinnitus%20trt

https://grantome.com/search?q=cbt%20resilience

Biomedical research is mostly linked to venture capitalist until empircal evidence comes in
https://www.researchamerica.org/sites/default/files/2016US_Invest_R&D_report.pdf

Why does translational research lag?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241518/