Design of a placebo-controlled, randomized study of the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of chronic tinntius

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Landgrebe, Michael ^a   Binder, Harald ^c   Koller, Michael ^b   Eberl, Yvonne ^b   Kleinjung, Tobias ^b   Eichhammer, Peter ^a   Graf, Erika ^c   Hajak, Goeran ^a   Langguth, Berthold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHIATRIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY CORTEX; DEPRESSION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 42949173419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-23     Document Type: Article

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