Clinical characteristics of essential tremor: Data from a community-based study

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 803-808

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Ford, Blair ^a   Wendt, Kristin J ^b   Cameron, Gabriella ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical characteristics; Community; Essential tremor

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VIDEOTAPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEW YORK CITY; TREMOR;

EID: 0031656488     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870130508     Document Type: Article

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