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Temporo-insular enhancement of EEG low and high frequencies in patients with chronic tinnitus. QEEG study of chronic tinnitus patients

Morteza Moazami-Goudarzi1,2*, Lars Michels2, Nathan Weisz3 and Daniel Jeanmonod2,4

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1 Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ/UNIZH, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland

2 University Hospital Zurich, Laboratory for Functional Neurosurgery, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland

3 Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, D-78464 Konstanz, Germany

4 Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, CH-0857 Zurich, Switzerland

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BMC Neuroscience 2010, 11:40 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-11-40

Published: 24 March 2010

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Table S1. Patient clinical details. Symptom laterality: BL (bilateral), R (right), L (left). Quality of Life: QL. Intensity scaling for anxiety, depression, frustration, hyperacusis and reduction of QL: 0 is for normal, 1 for slight, 2 for moderate, 3 for strong and 4 for severe. VAS: visual analogue scale (0-100). NA: not available.

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Grand average of the normalized power spectrum for EC condition in tinnitus and healthy control groups. Normalized EEG power spectrum for the group of patients (red) was enhanced with respect to the group of healthy controls (green).

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