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Neural Synchrony and Neural Plasticity in Tinnitus

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Abbreviations

HL:

Hearing level

CF:

Center frequency

RI:

Residual inhibition

ASSR:

Auditory steady-state response

AM:

Amplitude modulation

EEG:

Electroencephalogram

MEG:

Magnetoencephalography

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Acknowledgments

The research of the author reported herein was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the American Tinnitus Association, and the Tinnitus Research Initiative. I thank my colleague Daniel Bosnyak for his role and Phillip Gander, Victoria Mosher, Graeme Moffat, and David Thompson for their contributions.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1

    Larry E. Roberts

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  2. Department of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Berthold Langguth

  3. BRAI2N/TRI Tinnitus Clinic and Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650, Edegem, Belgium

    Dirk De Ridder

  4. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Tobias Kleinjung

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Roberts, L.E. (2011). Neural Synchrony and Neural Plasticity in Tinnitus. In: Møller, A.R., Langguth, B., De Ridder, D., Kleinjung, T. (eds) Textbook of Tinnitus. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-145-5_13

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