Tinnitus suppression by low-rate electric stimulation and its electrophysiological mechanisms

Hearing Research

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 61-66

  Zeng, Fan Gang ^a   Tang, Qing ^a   Dimitrijevic, Andrew ^a   Starr, Arnold ^a   Larky, Jannine ^b   Blevins, Nikolas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960259998     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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