Primary orthostatic tremor is an exaggeration of a physiological response to instability

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-199

  Sharott, Andrew ^a   Marsden, Jon ^a   Brown, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central oscillator; Coherence; EMG; Primary orthostatic tremor; Vestibular galvanic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREMOR; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ADULT; DIZZINESS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; TREMOR;

EID: 0037293562     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10324     Document Type: Review

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