Paroxysmal staccato tinnitus: A carbamazepine responsive hyperactivity dysfunction symptom of the eighth cranial nerve

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-455

  Brantberg, Krister ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERVENTILATION; LOUDNESS; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OSCILLOPSIA; PAROXYSMAL STACCATO TINNITUS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY; SYMPTOM; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TINNITUS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 77950624211     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.173732     Document Type: Article

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