Therapeutical strategies for essential tremor;Estrategias terapéuticas en el temblor esencial

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 129, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 632-637

  Gironell, Alexandre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Head tremor; Non pharmacological treatment; Pharmacological treatment; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; GABAPENTIN; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; TOPIRAMATE;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REVIEW; THALAMOTOMY;

EID: 37249055447     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13111814     Document Type: Review

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