Neuroimaging of essential tremor: What is the evidence for cerebellar involvement?

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Passamonti, Luca ^a   Cerasa, Antonio ^a   Quattrone, Aldo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Essential tremor; Fractional anisotropy; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging spectroscopy; Mean diffusivity; Positron emission tomography; Radioligand; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85113754969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21608288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5334/TOHM.105     Document Type: Review

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