A Systematic Classification of Tinnitus Generator Mechanisms.

Largely unknown causes and innumerable assumed mechanisms conceivably could be involved in the generation of tinnitus. Indeed, tinnitus is so complex and so manifold that a systematic classification could prove helpful. Here represented is a systematic classification that is suitable for scientific communication, for explaining tinnitus models to affected patients in the course of tinnitus counseling, and as a basis for rational diagnosis of and therapy for tinnitus.

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