Validity of a Performance-Based Test of function in essential tremor

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 841-846

  Louis, Elan D ^a   Wendt, Kristinj ^a   Albert, Steven M ^b   Pullman, Seth L ^b   Yu, Qiping ^c   Andrews, Howard ^d  

^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 NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIDEOTAPE;

AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033060245     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.56.7.841     Document Type: Article

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