Laserneedle stimulation in healty volunteers and for tinnitus: First computer-based investigations using very early auditory-evoked potentials;Lasernadelstimulation unter normkonditionen und tinnitus: Erste computergestützte untersuchungen mit sehr frühen akustisch evozierten potenzialen

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur GanzheitsMedizin

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-34

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Schwarz, Gerhard ^b   Schikora, Detlef ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Klinische Abteilung fur Neuro und Gesichtschirugische Anathesiologie Intensivmedizin   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Autidory evoked potentials; Ear; Laserneedle; Laserstimulation; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CASE REPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPOLARIZATION; DEVICE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; INNER EAR; LASER; MIDDLE EAR; NEEDLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REST; TINNITUS; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 33344466384     PISSN: 10150684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000282042     Document Type: Article

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