Quantitative analysis of rapid pointing movements in cree subjects exposed to mercury and in subjects with neurological deficits

Environmental Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 50-63

  Beuter, Anne ^a,b   De Geoffroy, Anne ^a   Edwards, Roderick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dysmetria; Eye hand coordination; Movement pathologies; Neurological deficit; Quantitative measure

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSMETRIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EYE HAND COORDINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MERCURIALISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREMOR;

EID: 0032947602     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1998.3884     Document Type: Article

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