Subdivision of essential tremor patients according to physiologic characteristics

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 393-397

  Golan, D ^a   Giladi, N ^a,b   Thorne, R ^a   Korczyn, A D ^a,b   Simon, E S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; Coherence; Electromyography; Essential tremor; Posture; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR REFLEX; FOREARM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOUTH; SEAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WRIST;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEEDBACK; HAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE;

EID: 2542571760     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2004.00251.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. HUBBLE JP, BUSENBARK KL, KOLLER WC. Essential tremor. Clin Neuropharmacol 1989;12:453-82.
2. LLINAS R, PARE D. Role of intrinsic neuronal oscillations and network ensembles in the genesis of normal and pathological tremors. In: FINDLEY LJ, KOLLER WC, eds. Handbook of tremor disorders. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1995;7-29.
3. HÖMBERG V, HEFTER H, REINERS K, FREUND HJ. Differential effects of changes in mechanical limb properties on physiological and pathological tremor. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1987;50:568-79.
4. JANKOVIC J. Essential tremor: a heterogenous disorder. Mov Disord 2002;17:638-44.
5. LOUIS ED, FORD B, BARNES LF. Clinical subtypes of essential tremor. Arch Neurol 2000;57:1194-8.
6. LOUIS ED, OTTMAN R. How familial is familial tremor? The genetic epidemiology of essential tremor. Neurology 1996;46:1200-5.
7. DEUSCHL G, LÜCKING CH, SCHENCK E. Essential tremor: electrophysiological and pharmacological evidence for a subdivision. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1987;50:1435-41.
8. BAIN P. A combined clinical and neurophysiological approach to the study of patients with tremor. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993;56:839-44.
9. CARTER GC. Coherence and time delay estimation. Proc IEEE 1987;75:236-55.