Essential tremor and tremor in Parkinson's disease are associated with distinct 'tremor clusters' in the ventral thalamus

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 435-443

  Pedrosa, David J ^a   Reck, Christiane ^a   Florin, Esther ^a,b   Pauls, K Amande M ^a   Maarouf, Mohammad ^a   Wojtecki, Lars ^c   Dafsari, Haidar Salimi ^a   Sturm, Volker ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^c   Fink, Gereon R ^a,d   Timmermann, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Local field potentials; Motor thalamus

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; HUMAN; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBTHALAMUS; TREMOR; VENTRAL LATERAL POSTERIOR NUCLEUS OF THALAMUS;

AGED; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; THALAMUS; TREMOR;

EID: 84865059462     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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