Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 5 , Pages 661-670 , May 2006

Upper-Extremity Disability in Essential Tremor

Presented in part to the Society for Neuroscience, November 12–16, 2005, Washington, DC.

,Accepted 10 January 2006.

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 Supported by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of Ontario (graduate scholarship), a Carmichael Scholarship, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant no. MOP67044).No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(06)00100-6

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.01.017

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 5 , Pages 661-670 , May 2006

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