Essential tremor and cerebellar dysfunction: Abnormal ballistic movements

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 400-405

  Koster B ^a   Deuschl, G ^b   Lauk, M ^c   Timmer, J ^c   Guschlbauer, B ^a   Lucking C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBELLUM; DYSKINESIAS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036785189     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.73.4.400     Document Type: Article

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