Temporo-insular enhancement of EEG low and high frequencies in patients with chronic tinnitus. QEEG study of chronic tinnitus patients

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Moazami Goudarzi, Morteza ^a,b   Michels, Lars ^b   Weisz, Nathan ^c   Jeanmonod, Daniel ^b,d  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BETA RHYTHM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM; TINNITUS; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TINNITUS;

EID: 77954064500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-40     Document Type: Article

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