Essential tremor is associated with dementia: Prospective population-based study in New York

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 621-625

  Thawani, Sujata P ^a   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b,c   Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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

^c NONE   (United States)

^d NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELDERLY CARE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69449099365     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181b389f1     Document Type: Article

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