Maladaptive plasticity in tinnitus-triggers, mechanisms and treatment

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 150-160

  Shore, Susan E ^a   Roberts, Larry E ^b   Langguth, Berthold ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FIRING RATE; HEAD INJURY; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NECK INJURY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TINNITUS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOISE; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84959346505     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2016.12     Document Type: Review

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