Thalamocortical dysrhythmia: a theoretical update in tinnitus

Tinnitus is the perception of a sound in the absence of an external sound source. Pathophysiologically it has been attributed to bottom up deafferentation and/or top down noise-cancelling deficit. Both mechanisms are proposed to alter auditory thalamocortical signal transmission resulting in thalamo...

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Main Authors: Dirk eDe Ridder, Sven eVanneste, Berthold eLangguth, Rodolfo eLlinas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2015.00124/full