Mirror movements in patients with essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2211-2217

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Rios, Eileen ^a   Henchcliffe, Claire ^d  

^a Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Essential tremor; Mirror movements; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIRROR MOVEMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REST TREMOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 72849109885     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22749     Document Type: Article

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