Tinnitus: Pathophysiology and Treatment (Progress in Brain Research): Volume 166 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044453167X ISBN 13: 9780444531674

Publisher: Elsevier Science, 2007

Synopsis

Understanding tinnitus and treating patients with tinnitus must involve many disciplines of basic science and clinical practice. The book provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics related to tinnitus including its pathophysiology, etiology and treatment. The chapters are written by researchers and clinicians who are active in the areas of basic science such as neurophysiology and neuroanatomy and in clinical specialties of psychology, psychiatry, audiology and otolaryngology.

* Comprehensive coverage of the pathology and cause of tinnitus including genetics
* Hyperacusis, phonophobia and other abnormalities in perception of sounds
* The role of neural plasticity in tinnitus

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Møller is currently the M.F. Jonsson Professor of Hearing, University of Texas at Dallas, the Callier Center for Communication Disorders. He was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for 19 years, where he held positions as Research Professor of Otolaryngology and later of Neurological Surgery. From 1988 to 1997 he held the position of Professor of Neurological Surgery. He received his medical education at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, where he also held faculty positions for more than 10 years. Dr. Møller is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Hearing Research.

About this edition

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 044453167X
• ISBN 13: 9780444531674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Moller Aage R., Langguth Berthold, Hajak Goran, Kleinjung Tobias, Cacace Anthony