Tinnitus retraining therapy: Mixing point and total masking are equally effective

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 588-594

  Tyler, Richard S ^a,b   Noble, William ^c   Coelho, Claudia Barros ^a   Ji, Haihong ^a,b  

^a Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865711577     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31824f2a6e     Document Type: Article

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