Side-to-side correlation of muscle activity in physiological and pathological human tremors

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1774-1783

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence analysis; EMG correlation analysis; Orthostatic tremor; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREMOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIODICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREMOR;

EID: 0345718507     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00130-3     Document Type: Article

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