Robert A. Levine, MD

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Online Publications

The following publications are in Adobe Acrobat PDF.

Typewriter Tinnitus: A Carbamazepine-Responsive Syndrome Related to Auditory Nerve Vascular Compression, Robert A. Levine, Journal for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 2006
Evidence for a tinnitus subgroup responsive to somatosensory based treatment modalities (PDF 168kB) by Levine, Nam, Oron and Melcher, Progress in Brain Research, 2007.
Poster presented at ARO 2005 on Spontaneous Brief Unilateral Tinnitus (SBUT), PDF 3.7MB
A chapter on Somatic Tinnitus (PDF 223kB) written for Tinnitus: Theory and Management edited by James Snow, Jr. MD, and published by BC Decker in September 2004.
CNS Somatosensory-Auditory Interactions Elicit or Modulate Tinnitus (PDF 75kb) Levine, Abel and Cheng, 2003.
Typewriter Tinnitus: A Rare but Treatable Form of Tinnitus (PDF 7.5MB) a poster presented at 2003 Association for Research in Otolaryngology midwinter meeting.
Somatic Tinnitus in non-clinical subjects and the profoundly deaf (PDF 23874 Bytes) by Levine, Abel and Cheng, 2002.
Somatic Modulation of Tinnitus III (PDF 200KB) a poster prepared for the 2002 Association for Research in Otolaryngology meeting on modulation of tinnitus in deaf subjects.
Editorial: Imaging Tinnitus by Levine & Melcher.
Levine, R. A. (2000) Diagnostic Issues in Tinnitus: A Neuro-otological Perspective
Levine, R. A. (2000). Somatic (craniocervical) tinnitus and the dorsal cochlear nucleus hypothesis. Am J Otolaryngol, 20, 351-362.
Levine, R. A. (1999). Somatic modulation appears to be a fundamental attribute of tinnitus. In J. Hazell (Eds.), Proceedings Sixth International Tinnitus Seminar (pp. 193-197). London: Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Centre.
Levine, R. A. & Abel, M. Somatic modulation of tinnitus II: prevalence and properties in normal subjects, presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 4, 2001.
Abstract (2k text) and Poster (196k PDF - requires Acrobat Reader v4)
Melcher, J. R., Sigalovsky, I., Guinan, J. J., & Levine, R. A. (2000). Lateralized tinnitus studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging: abnormal inferior colliculus. J Neurophysiol, 83, 1058-1072.

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Original 15 Feb 2002 Aug 15 13:15 EDT /
Last modified: 2005 February 23 / Ishmael Stefanov-Wagner