Task-specific tremor

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 100, Issue , 2011, Pages 711-718

  Bain, Peter G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOK; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

EID: 79954494821     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52014-2.00050-1     Document Type: Book

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