Update on essential tremor

Minerva Medica

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 417-440

  Benito Leon J ^a,b,c   Louis, E D ^d,e,f  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

^f Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Nervous system diseases; Parkinson disease

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPRAZOLAM; AMIODARONE; ATENOLOL; BETA CARBOLINE DERIVATIVE; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CAFFEINE; CINNARIZINE; CLONAZEPAM; CLOZAPINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETIRACETAM; FLUNARIZINE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; LITHIUM; METHYLPHENIDATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NADOLOL; NIFEDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; OCTANOL; OLANZAPINE; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; SOTALOL; TOPIRAMATE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZONISAMIDE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; AGGRESSIVENESS; AGING; AGITATION; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ALERTNESS; ANOREXIA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ATAXIA; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BREATHING DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DECREASED APPETITE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FATIGUE; GAIT DISORDER; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND TREMOR; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARTBURN; HEMATOMA; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INCIDENCE; INJECTION PAIN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIMB WEAKNESS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALAISE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NAUSEA; NECK INJURY; NERVOUSNESS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARESTHESIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PULSE RATE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DEFECT; SMELLING DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; STROKE; TACHYCARDIA; TASTE; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREMOR; UNSTEADINESS; VERTIGO; VOICE; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS;

EID: 84857568563     PISSN: 00264806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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