Moving toward "laboratory-supported" criteria for psychogenic tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2509-2515

  Schwingenschuh, Petra ^a,b   Katschnig, Petra ^a,b   Seiler, Stephan ^b   Saifee, Tabish A ^a   Aguirregomozcorta, Maria ^a   Cordivari, Carla ^c   Schmidt, Reinhold ^b   Rothwell, John C ^a   Bhatia, Kailash P ^a   Edwards, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic criteria; Electrophysiology; Psychogenic tremor; Tremor analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC TREMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREMOR;

EID: 83555177314     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23922     Document Type: Article

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