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Musculoskeletal Models of Tremor

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Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies in Tremor Disorders

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Notwithstanding the contribution of many prior works in tremor (Elble and Koller 1990; Findley and Koller 1994), a clear consensus of its origin and pathogenesis among the scientific community is still lacking. The prevalent opinion supports the idea that the main source of tremor is from central neural oscillators located in brain (central tremor), but the peripheral nervous system may also have a significant contribution in some cases (peripheral tremor) (see also the Chap. 6; Stein and Oguztoreli 1976; Wenderoth and Bock 1999).

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  1. Institute of Robotics, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Dingguo Zhang

  2. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Wei Tech Ang

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Zhang, D., Ang, W.T. (2013). Musculoskeletal Models of Tremor. In: Grimaldi, G., Manto, M. (eds) Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies in Tremor Disorders. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4027-7_5

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