Wrist tremor: Investigation of agonist-antagonist interaction by means of long-term EMG recording and cross-spectral analysis

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-363

  Boose, A ^a   Spieker, S ^a   Jentgens, C ^a   Dichgans, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agonist antagonist interaction; Cross spectral analysis; Essential tremor; Long term recording; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST;

EID: 0030221644     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0924-980X(96)95533-2     Document Type: Article

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