Effect of daily repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment of tinnitus: Comparison of different stimulus frequencies

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-215

  Khedr, Eman M ^a   Rothwell, J C ^b   Ahmed, M A ^a   El Atar, A ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TINNITUS; TINNITUS HANDICAP INVENTORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; TEMPORAL LOBE; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38849166758     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.127712     Document Type: Article

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