When Did My Tremor Start?: Can Essential Tremor Patients Pinpoint Their Disease Onset?
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Unawareness of head tremor in essential tremor: a study of three samples of essential tremor patients.
To broadly sample ET in different settings, we selected cases from three settings: a tertiaryreferral center (largest sample),5 a population-based study in Manhattan,6 and a brain repository.7 As expected, cases differed in several respects (Table). Using the same clinical questionnaire, each case was asked whether he/she sometimes has a head tremor. A 20 minute videotaped tremor examination wa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroepidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1423-0208,0251-5350
DOI: 10.1159/000342312