Results of TRT after eighteen months: Our experience

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 217-222

  Baracca, Giovanna N ^a   Forti, Stella ^a   Crocetti, Andrea ^b   Fagnani, Enrico ^a   Scotti, Alberto ^c   Bo, Luca Del ^b   Ambrosetti, Umberto ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b Del Bo Tecnologia per l'Ascolto   (Italy)

^c SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Counselling; Neurophysiological model; Sound therapy; Tinnitus; Tinnitus retraining therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONCENTRATION LOSS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENERATOR; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAMPLE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOUND; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TINNITUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION; SLEEP; SOUND; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248548819     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020601175945     Document Type: Article

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