One‐year follow up of patients with chronic tinnitus treated with left temporoparietal rTMS

Background and purpose: Although there are a number of positive reports on the therapeutic effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treatment of tinnitus, there are few details about the duration of treatment effects or the relative efficiency of different rTMS protocols.

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