Impaired motor imagery in patients with essential tremor: A case control study

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 504-508

  Lo, Yew Ng ^a,b   Louis, Elan D ^c   Fook Chong, Stephanie ^a   Tan, Eng King ^a,d  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^d Singapore Health Services   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Case control study; Essential tremor; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 34247198315     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21356     Document Type: Article

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