The effect of ethanol on alcohol-responsive essential tremor: A position emission tomography study

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 650-658

  Boecker, Henning ^a,b   Wills, Adrian J ^a,c   Ceballos Baumann, Andres ^a,b   Samuel, Michael ^a   Thompson, Philip D ^c   Findley, Leslie J ^c   Brooks, David J ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR OLIVE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CEREBELLUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREMOR;

EID: 0029975185     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410390515     Document Type: Article

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