Article Information
- Received December 19, 2014
- Revision received April 4, 2015
- Accepted April 27, 2015
- First published June 10, 2015.
- Version of record published June 10, 2015.
Author Information
Author contributions
Author contributions: B.I.K., S.E., A.V.T., and T.T. designed research; B.I.K., H.S., K.M.D., and T.F. performed research; S.E. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; B.I.K., T.F., S.E., A.V.T., and T.T. analyzed data; B.I.K., S.E., A.V.T., and T.T. wrote the paper.
↵*B.I.K. and H.S. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received December 19, 2014.
- Revision received April 4, 2015.
- Accepted April 27, 2015.
This work was supported by the Department of Defense (Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Grant PR093405 to T.T.), the Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program (Grant W81XWH-14-1-0117 to T.T.), and the National Institutes of Health (Grant NS073981 to A.V.T.). We thank the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–National Institutes of Health anticonvulsant screening program at the University of Utah for performing the anticonvulsant and toxicity studies; Adam Whiteley and Inga Kristaponyte for helping with experiments assessing the behavioral evidence of tinnitus; and Cindy Ling for help in making the figures.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Thanos Tzounopoulos, Department of Otolaryngology and Neurobiology, Bio-Medical Science Tower 3, Room 3, 3501 Fifth Ave., 10021 BST 3, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, thanos{at}pitt.edu; or Anastasios V. Tzingounis, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, 75 North Eagleville Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, anastasios.tzingounis{at}uconn.edu
