Essential tremor centralized brain repository: Diagnostic validity and clinical characteristics of a highly selected group of essential tremor cases

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1361-1365

  Louis, Ellan D ^a,b,c   Borden, Sarah ^a   Moskowitz, Carol B ^b  

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

^b Neurological Institute ^*  (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain bank; Clinical characteristics; Epidemiology; Essential tremor

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FACE DISORDER; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEARING AID; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMOTOMY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIDEORECORDING;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BRAIN; CHIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FACE; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; NECK; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TONGUE; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 27844563714     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20583     Document Type: Article

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