Tuning the tinnitus percept by modification of synchronous brain activity

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 371-378

  Dohrmann, Katalin ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^a   Schlee, Winfried ^a   Weisz, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

EEG; Neurofeedback; Perceptual coding; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TINNITUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DELTA RHYTHM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TINNITUS;

EID: 35348845121     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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