Estimating annual rate of decline: Prospective, longitudinal data on arm tremor severity in two groups of essential tremor cases

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 761-765

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Agnew, Angus ^a   Gillman, Arthur ^a   Gerbin, Marina ^a   Viner, Amanda S ^a  

^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ARM; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79959915912     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.229740     Document Type: Article

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