Essential tremors: A family of neurodegenerative disorders?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1202-1208

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (Canada)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ALPRAZOLAM; AMIODARONE; ATENOLOL; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; CLOZAPINE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETIRACETAM; FLUNARIZINE; GABAPENTIN; LITHIUM; METHAZOLAMIDE; METHYLPHENIDATE; NADOLOL; NIMODIPINE; OCTANOL; OLANZAPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PREGABALIN; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; STEROID; THEOPHYLLINE; THYROXINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; AGING; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ASTHENIA; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABUSE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; DYSPNEA; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FATIGUE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND TREMOR; HEADACHE; HEARTBURN; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; LETHARGY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; PARESTHESIA; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSTEADINESS; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA; DISEASE COURSE; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 70350442003     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2009.217     Document Type: Review

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