Essential tremor: Beyond the motor features

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 407-413

  Chandran, Vijay ^a   Pal, Pramod Kumar ^b  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cognition; Depression; Essential tremor; Hearing; Non motor symptoms; Olfaction; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP QUALITY; SMELLING DISORDER;

ANXIETY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 84861189888     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.12.003     Document Type: Review

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