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Changes in Physiological Tremor during Repeated Performance of a Motor Task in Normal Subjects and Anxious Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. R. G. Carrie
J. R. G. Carrie*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
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It has been found that a significant progressive reduction in the amplitude of physiological tremor in the 4–12 c/sec. range occurs when relatively unpractised subjects carry out a series of trials in a motor task involving a controlled muscle effort (Carrie, in press.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 504 , November 1967 , pp. 1267 - 1270
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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