Clinical and neurophysiologic spectrum of orthostatic tremor: Case series of 26 subjects

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1455-1461

  Piboolnurak, Panida ^a   Yu, Qiping P ^a   Pullman, Seth L ^a,b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical manifestation; Neurophysiologic findings; Orthostatic tremor; Phase relationship; Tremor analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PRAMIPEXOLE; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CASE STUDY; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB TREMOR; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; STANDING; TREMOR; UNSTEADINESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TREMOR;

EID: 30444452091     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20588     Document Type: Article

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