Clinical trial on tonal tinnitus with tailor-made notched music training

BMC Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Stein, Alwina ^a   Wunderlich, Robert ^a,b   Lau, Pia ^a   Engell, Alva ^a   Wollbrink, Andreas ^a   Shaykevich, Alex ^c   Kuhn, Jörg Tobias ^a   Holling, Heinz ^a   Rudack, Claudia ^d   Pantev, Christo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Institute for Psychology ^*  (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Lateral inhibition; Tailor made notched music training (TMNMT); Tonal tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSIC ENJOYMENT; MUSIC LISTENING TIME; MUSIC THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEIVED TINNITUS LOUDNESS; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PSYCHOACOUSTIC MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TAILOR MADE NOTCHED MUSIC TRAINING; TINNITUS; TINNITUS HANDICAP QUESTIONNAIRE; TONAL TINNITUS; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; MUSIC THERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961692397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-016-0558-7     Document Type: Article

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