Psychoacoustic Tinnitus Loudness and Tinnitus-Related Distress Show Different Associations with Oscillatory Brain Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Balkenhol, Tobias ^a   Wallhäusser Franke, Elisabeth ^a   Delb, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; BETA RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OSCILLATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; STEADY STATE; THETA RHYTHM; TINNITUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TINNITUS;

EID: 84872254257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053180     Document Type: Article

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