Comparing immediate transient tinnitus suppression using tACS and tDCS: A placebo-controlled study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-31

  Vanneste, Sven ^a,b   Walsh, Vincent ^c   Van De Heyning, Paul ^a,b   De Ridder, Dirk ^a,d  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Frontal; tACS; tDCS; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOUDNESS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84875421827     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3406-7     Document Type: Article

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