Clinical expression of essential tremor: Effects of gender and age

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 969-972

  Hubble, J P ^a,c   Busenbark, K L ^b   Pahwa, R ^b   Lyons, K ^b   Koller, W C ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Gender; Tandem gait

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HAND; HEAD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOICE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ATAXIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TREMOR; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030659735     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120620     Document Type: Article

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