Prevalence of fragile X‐associated tremor/ataxia syndrome: A survey of essential tremor patients with cerebellar signs or extrapyramidal signs
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Familial Aggregation of the Cerebellar Signs in Familial Essential Tremor
BACKGROUND Although the hallmark feature of essential tremor (ET) is kinetic tremor, patients may exhibit additional motor features (e.g., intention tremor and mild gait ataxia) that are markers of an underlying abnormality of cerebellar function. ET is also a highly familial disorder, but we do not know whether the presence and expression of cerebellar signs are similar across family members. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain and Behavior
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2162-3279,2162-3279
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1337