Psychoacoustic assessment to improve tinnitus diagnosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Basile, Charles Édouard ^a,b   Fournier, Philippe ^a,b   Hutchins, Sean ^a   Hébert, Sylvie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; MALINGERING; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; PITCH; PSYCHOACOUSTIC ASSESSMENT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TINNITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEARING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TINNITUS;

EID: 84892623405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082995     Document Type: Article

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