The emerging neuropathology of essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 174-182

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c,d   Vonsattel, Jean Paul G ^b  

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

^b Neurological Institute ^*  (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Essential tremor; Lewy body; Neurodegeneration; Pathology

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 39749199439     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21731     Document Type: Review

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