An accelerometry-based study of lower and upper limb tremor in Parkinson's disease

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 827-830

  Scanlon, Blake K ^a,b   Levin, Bonnie E ^c,d   Nation, Daniel A ^e   Katzen, Heather L ^c,f   Guevara Salcedo, Alexandra ^g   Singer, Carlos ^c   Papapetropoulos, Spiridon ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Biology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremities; Intraindividual variability; Monitoring; Parkinson's disease; Physiologic; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB TREMOR; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; OSCILLATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; AGED; ARM; COMPLICATION; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR;

ACCELEROMETRY; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84891881118     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2012.06.015     Document Type: Article

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