Postural tremor in X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2063-2069

  Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Nakatani Enomoto, Setsu ^a,b   Hamada, Masashi ^a   Yugeta, Akihiro ^a   Matsumoto, Hideyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Tomotaka ^a   Tsuji, Shoji ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence; Mechanical tremor; Peripheral tremor; Reflex tremor; SBMA

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FINGER; FOREARM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTURAL TREMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR; ULNAR NERVE; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISORDERS, ATROPHIC; POSTURE; TREMOR; ULNAR NERVE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 70450177471     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22566     Document Type: Article

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