Kinetic tremor: Differences between smokers and non-smokers

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-575

  Louis, Elan D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Gender; Nicotine; Smoking; Tremor

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; TREMOR;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; TREMOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 34249745194     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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