Can temporal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation Be enhanced by targeting affective components of tinnitus with frontal rTMS? A randomized controlled pilot trial

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER 2011, 2011, Pages

  Kreuzer, Peter Michael ^a   Landgrebe, Michael ^a   Schecklmann, Martin ^a   Poeppl, Timm B ^a   Vielsmeier, Veronika ^a   Hajak, Goeran ^a,b   Kleinjung, Tobias ^a,c   Langguth, Berthold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Psychiatry Psychosomatic Medicine   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chronic tinnitus; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Limbic system; Neuromodulation; rTMS; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THERAPY EFFECT; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 84856200873     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00088     Document Type: Article

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