Multiple oscillators are causing parkinsonian and essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 84-94

  Raethjen, Jan ^a   Lindemann, Michael ^a   Schmaljohann, Holger ^a   Wenzelburger, Roland ^a   Pfister, Gerd ^a   Deuschl, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central oscillators; Coherence analysis; Essential tremor; Frequency; Parkinson's disease; Topography

Indexed keywords

ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MATHEMATICS; MOTONEURON; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; OSCILLATOR; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SPINAL NERVE; TREMOR; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ARM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LEG; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033982292     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(200001)15:1<84::AID-MDS1014>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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