How normal is 'normal'? Mild tremor in a multiethnic cohort of normal subjects

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 222-227

  Louis, Elan D ^a   Ford, Blair ^b   Pullman, Seth ^c   Baron, Keren ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0031951637     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.55.2.222     Document Type: Article

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