Diagnostic criteria for essential tremor: A population perspective

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 823-828

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,d   Ford, Blair ^a   Lee, Helen ^c   Andrews, Howard ^c   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 NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREMOR;

EID: 0031750506     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.55.6.823     Document Type: Article

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