EDITORIALS

Invitations and Presentations: Experiences of Sharing, Teaching, Learning, and Appreciation. Abraham Shulman

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SECTION: AUDIOLOGY

Insertion Procedure, Aftercare, and Soft-Tissue Reaction of the 2.5-mm Titanium Tube System for a Transcutaneous Air Conduction Hearing Aid System. Theo Wesendahl

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SECTION: BASIC SCIENCE/CLINICAL SCIENCE

Arousal and Attention Deficits in Patients with Tinnitus. John Dornhoffer, Christopher Danner, Mark Mennemeier, Donna Blake, and Edgar Garcia-Rill

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Congenital Atresia of the External Ear and Tinnitus: A New Syndrome. Abraham Shulman, Arnold M. Strashun, Barbara Goldstein, and Martin L. Lenhardt

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Amplitude Range Analysis of Otolithic Organ Responses. Burkhard Franz, Cameron Jones, and Walter Chetcuti

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SECTION: NEUROTOLOGY AND ABNORMAL SENSORY PHENOMENA

Postural Adaptation in Elderly Patients with Instability and Risk of Falling After Balance Training Using a Virtual-Reality System.
Hamlet Suárez, Alejo Suárez, and Luiz Lavinsky

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A Comparison Between Oculomotor Rehabilitation and Vestibular Electrical Stimulation in Unilateral Peripheral Vestibular Deficit.
Stefania Barozzi, Federica Di Berardino, Elena Arisi, and Antonio Cesarani

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Relationship Between Head-Only Rotation and Caloric Test Results in Vestibular Disorders. Caroline Farha Cabete, Maurício Malavasi Ganança, Heloísa Helena Caovilla, Flavio Serafini, Márcia Moniz Frazza, and Patrícia Gushikem

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Study of Test of Balance in Tinnitus and Vertigo Patients.
Jorge Said and Alfonso Izita

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The Value of the Examination of Visuooculomotor Reflexes in Diagnosis of Posterior Cranial Fossa Lesions.
Henryk Kaźmierczak and Katarzyna Pawlak-Osińka

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Characteristics of Tinnitus in a Population of 555 Patients: Specificities of Tinnitus Induced by Noise Trauma.
Cécile Nicolas-Puel, Tasnime Akbaraly, Ruth Lloyd, Claudine Berr, Alain Uziel, Guy Rebillard, and Jean-Luc Puel

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Our Experience with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.
Miroslav Novotný, Jan Skutil, Aleš Trnka, and Rom Kostřica

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SECTION: MEDICINE/SURGERY

Brain and Inner-Ear Fluid Homeostasis, Cochleovestibular-Type Tinnitus, and Secondary Endolymphatic Hydrops. Abraham Shulman and Barbara Goldstein

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Sodium Enoxaparin and Venovenous Hemofiltration in Treating Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Tinnitus.
Renzo Mora, Massimo Dellepiane, Francesco Mora, and Barbara Jankowska

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SECTION: MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Meetings and Events

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EDITORIALS

The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Tinnitus Forum 2006: Translational Research in Tinnitus Therapy II. Abraham Shulman

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SECTION: PERSONALITIES

How I Came to Be the Dizzy Doctor of New Orleans. Wallace Rubin

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SECTION: AUDIOLOGY

Binaural Hearing, Atresia, and the Masking Dilemma. Martin L. Lenhardt, Barbara A. Goldstein, and Abraham Shulman

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SECTION: BASIC SCIENCE/CLINICAL SCIENCE

Tinnitus Dyssynchrony-Synchrony Theory: A Translational Concept for Diagnosis and Treatment. Abraham Shulman and Barbara Goldstein

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The Clinical Significance of the Caloric Second Phase Provoked by Positional Change in Vertiginous Patients. Sachiko Aoki, Yasuko Arai, Natsumi Ide, Eisaku Sugiura, and Keisuke Miyajima

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Quantitative Electroencephalography Power Analysis in Subjective Idiopathic Tinnitus Patients: A Clinical Paradigm Shift in the Understanding of Tinnitus, An Electrophysiological Correlate. Abraham Shulman, Matthew J. Avitable, and Barbara Goldstein

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Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in an Animal Model of Induced Hyperinsulinemia. Francisco Carlos Zuma e Maia and Luiz Lavinsky

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SECTION: MEDICINE/SURGERY

Benzodiazepines and GABAergics in Treating Severe Disabling Tinnitus of Predominantly Cochlear Origin. Fayez M. Bahmad Jr., Alessandra R. Venosa, and Carlos A. Oliveira

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Long-Term and Frequent Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Acoustic Neuroma.
Ahmed Harith Salahaldin and Abdulbari Bener

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Review of Pharmacological Therapy for Tinnitus.
Matthew B. Patterson and Ben J. Balough

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Pharmacotherapy for Severe, Disabling, Subjective, Idiopathic Tinnitus: 2005–2006.
Abraham Shulman and Barbara Goldstein

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Can Cochlear Implants Decrease Tinnitus?
Ema Yonehara, Raquel Mezzalira, Paulo R.C. Porto, Walter A. Bianchini, Luciane Calonga, Silvia Badur Curi, and Guita Stoler

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SECTION: NEUROTOLOGY AND ABNORMAL SENSORY PHENOMENA

Management of Tinnitus in Patients with Presbycusis.
Olaf Zagólski

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Comparative Results of Craniocorpography and the Test of Balance in Tinnitus and Vertigo Patients.
Jorge Said, Alfonso Izita, Ana Luisa González, and Enrique Tovar

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Vertigo in Children.
Katarzyna Pawlak-Osińska, Henryk Kaźmierczak, Renata Kuczyńska, and Anna Szaflarska-Popławska

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SECTION: MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Meetings and Events

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Contents to Volume 12, Issues 1–2, 2006

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