Tremor in ostensibly normal elderly people

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 457-464

  Elble, Rodger J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Essential tremor; Movement disorders; Physiologic tremor

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DRAWING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENESCENCE; SIBLING; TREMOR; WRITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; TREMOR;

EID: 0031922465     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870130314     Document Type: Article

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