Comparison of clinical vs. electrophysiological methods of diagnosing of essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 668-673

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b   Pullman, Seth L ^b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Physiology; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0035412907     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1144     Document Type: Article

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