Essential tremor as a neuropsychiatric disorder

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 144-148

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Cognition; Dementia; Depression; Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Neuropsychiatric

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DEREGULATION; DISABILITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEWY BODY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 74149083738     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.08.029     Document Type: Article

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