Diagnosis and management of essential tremor and dystonic tremor

Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 215-222

  Gironell, Alexandre ^a   Kulisevsky, Jaime ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

alprazolam; deep brain stimulation; essential tremor; gabapentin; primidone; propranolol; topiramate

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPRAZOLAM; ATENOLOL; BENZODIAZEPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CLONAZEPAM; CLOZAPINE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; NADOLOL; NIMODIPINE; OCTANOL; OXYBATE SODIUM; PLACEBO; PREGABALIN; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; SOTALOL; TOPIRAMATE; ZONISAMIDE;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACUTE TOXICITY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ANOREXIA; ASTHMA; ATAXIA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BODY WEIGHT; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DECREASED APPETITE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSTONIA; DYSTONIC TREMOR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FATIGUE; FINGER WEAKNESS; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MALAISE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NAUSEA; NEUROPROTECTION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNSTEADINESS; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; WRIST WEAKNESS;

EID: 77953248483     PISSN: 17562856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756285609104791     Document Type: Review

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