Alzheimer's-related changes in non-demented essential tremor patients vs. controls: Links between tau and tremor?

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 655-658

  Pan, Jie J ^a   Lee, Michelle ^b   Honig, Lawrence S ^b,c   Vonsattel, Jean Paul G ^c,d   Faust, Phyllis L ^d   Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

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

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Braak; Dementia; Essential tremor; Neurofibrillary tangle; Tau

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAAK NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE STAGE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSORTIUM TO ESTABLISH A REGISTRY FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENILE PLAQUE; TAUOPATHY; AMYLOID PLAQUE; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; VERY ELDERLY;

TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84900030232     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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