Is essential tremor symmetric? Observational data from a community- based study of essential tremor

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1553-1559

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b   Wendt, Kristin J ^a,b   Pullman, Seth L ^a   Ford, Blair ^a  

^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)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031700559     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.55.12.1553     Document Type: Article

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