Population-based case-control study of cognitive function in essential tremor

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-74

  Benito León, Julián ^a,d   Louis, Elan D ^b   Bermejo Pareja, Félix ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

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

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPAIN; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPAIN;

EID: 33645835006     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000192393.05850.ec     Document Type: Article

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