Dystonia and Tremor: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Dystonia Coalition Cohort

Aasef G Shaikh1, Sinem Balta Beylergil1, Laura Scorr1

  • 1From the Departments of Biomedical Engineering (A.G.S., S.B.B.) and Neurology (A.G.S.), Case Western University School of Medicine; Neurological Institute (A.G.S.), University Hospitals Cleveland; Neurology Service (A.G.S.), Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, OH; Department of Neurology (L.S., G.K.-B., A.F., S. Factor, H.A.J.), Human Genetics (H.A.J.), and Pediatrics (H.A.J.), Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; Institute of Neurogenetics (C.K., J.J., S.L., N.B., A.M., T.B.), University of Lübeck, Germany; Department of Neurology (M.V., E.R., C.B.), Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (J.J.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Neurology and Neurosurgery (J.J.-S.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Neurology (N.P.), Henry Ford Health System, West Bloomfield, MI; Department of Psychiatry and Neurology (L.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Department of Neurological Sciences (C.C.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Department of Neurology (R.L.B.), University of Rochester, NY; Department of Neurology (B.D.B.), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora; Department of Neurology (I.M., A.W.S.), Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, University of Florida, Gainesville; Department of Neurology (S.G.R.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Tennessee Health Science Center (M.S.L.), Memphis; Department of Neurosciences (A.B.), Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Suicide Prevention Center, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome; IRCCS Neuromed (G.F.), Pozzilli, Italy; The University of Alabama at Birmingham (N.S.); Methodist Neurological Institute (W.O.), Houston, TX; Department of Neurology (S.P.R.), University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque; Department of Neurology (R.S.-P.), Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY; Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (Z.M.), Cleveland Clinic, Las Vegas, NV; Booth Gardner Parkinson's Care Center (P.A.), Kirkland, WA; Mayo Clinic (C.A.), Scottsdale, AZ; Andre Barbeau Movement Disorders Unit (S.C.), Montreal University Hospital Center (CHUM); Movement Disorder Clinic (S.H.F.), Toronto Western Hospital, Division of Neurology University of Toronto, Canada; UC Davis School of Medicine (A.B.), Sacramento; The Parkinson's and Movement Disorder Institute (D.T.), Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, Fountain Valley, CA; Department of Medicine (O.S.), Medical Genetics, and Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Canada; Department of Neurology (S. Frank), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; and Neurology, Radiology, Neuroscience, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy (J.P.), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.

Neurology
|October 13, 2020
PubMed
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