rTMS Induced Tinnitus Relief Is Related to an Increase in Auditory Cortical Alpha Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Müller, Nadia ^a   Lorenz, Isabel ^b   Langguth, Berthold ^c   Weisz, Nathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOUND INTENSITY; THERAPY EFFECT; THETA RHYTHM; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873493982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055557     Document Type: Article

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