Tinnitus: The dark side of the auditory cortex plasticity

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 253-258

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

^a Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MUSIC; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTICITY; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; TINNITUS;

EID: 84860231395     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06452.x     Document Type: Article

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