Association of tinnitus and electromagnetic hypersensitivity: Hints for a shared pathophysiology?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Landgrebe, Michael ^a   Frick, Ulrich ^a,b   Hauser, Simone ^a   Hajak, Goeran ^a   Langguth, Berthold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b CARINTHIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; TINNITUS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS; TINNITUS;

EID: 63449089158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005026     Document Type: Article

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