Primary writing tremor and writer's cramp: Distinct phenomenology, diverging pathophysiology

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-6

  Espay, Alberto J ^a   Chen, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIMARY WRITING TREMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; WRITER'S CRAMP;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; HAND; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TREMOR; WRITING;

EID: 78650175811     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.06.013     Document Type: Editorial

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