Customized notched music training reduces tinnitus loudness

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 274-277

  Stracke, Henning ^a   Okamoto, Hidehiko ^a   Pantev, Christo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Human auditory cortex; Lateral inhibition; Magnetoencephalography; MEG

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052828463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.3.3.11558     Document Type: Article

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