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The role of laboratory investigations in the classification of tremors

Luca Angelini1, Roberta Terranova2, Giulia Lazzeri3

  • 1Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy. luca.angelini@uniroma1.it.

Neurological Sciences : Official Journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
|October 9, 2023
PubMed
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Keywords:
ClassificationGeneticsNeuroimagingNeurophysiologyTremortremor diagnosismovement disorder classificationneurophysiology in tremortremor etiology

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