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One-Year Follow-Up on Essential Tremor Worsening After SARS-CoV-2 Infection: a Series of Two Cases

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, M. Bologna, upon reasonable request.

Abbreviations

ET:

Essential tremor

FTMTRS:

Fahn-Tolosa-Marin Tremor Rating Scale

MRI:

Magnetic resonance imaging

CSF:

Cerebrospinal fluid

CNS:

Central nervous system

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  1. Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza, University of Rome, Viale Dell’Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Davide Costa, Daniele Birreci, Massimiliano Passaretti, Luca Angelini, Donato Colella, Giulia Paparella, Alfredo Berardelli & Matteo Bologna

  2. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Massimiliano Passaretti

  3. IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy

    Antonio Cannavacciuolo, Giulia Paparella, Alfredo Berardelli & Matteo Bologna

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Davide Costa, Daniele Birreci, Massimiliano Passaretti, Luca Angelini, Donato Colella, Antonio Cannavacciuolo and Giulia Paparella. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Davide Costa and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Costa, D., Birreci, D., Passaretti, M. et al. One-Year Follow-Up on Essential Tremor Worsening After SARS-CoV-2 Infection: a Series of Two Cases. Cerebellum (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-023-01598-2

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