Tinnitus with a Normal Audiogram: Physiological Evidence for Hidden Hearing Loss and Computational Model
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Tinnitus with a normal audiogram: physiological evidence for hidden hearing loss and computational model.
Ever since Pliny the Elder coined the term tinnitus, the perception of sound in the absence of an external sound source has remained enigmatic. Traditional theories assume that tinnitus is triggered by cochlear damage, but many tinnitus patients present with a normal audiogram, i.e., with no direct signs of cochlear damage. Here, we report that in human subjects with tinnitus and a normal audio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2156-11.2011