Effects of individual alpha rTMS applied to the auditory cortex and its implications for the treatment of chronic tinnitus

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-29

  Weisz, Nathan ^a   Lüchinger, Claudia ^b   Thut, Gregor ^c   Müller, Nadia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beamforming; EEG; Entrainment; Node degree; State dependency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECENTRAL SULCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETETIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SHAM PROCEDURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYLVIAN FISSURE; THETA RHYTHM; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BEAMFORMING; EEG; ENTRAINMENT; NODE DEGREE; STATE-DEPENDENCY;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84889669904     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22152     Document Type: Article

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