Recent technological advances in sound-based approaches to tinnitus treatment: A review of efficacy considered against putative physiological mechanisms

Noise and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 63, 2013, Pages 107-116

  Hoare, Derek ^a,b   Adjamian, Peyman ^c   Sereda, Magdalena ^a,b   Hall, Deborah ^a,b  

^a NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Frequency discrimination; Magnetoencephalography; Plasticity; Reorganization; Sound therapy

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; TINNITUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TINNITUS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877253648     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.110292     Document Type: Article

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