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Overview

Rodger J. Elble is affiliated with Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily addresses neurological disorders and treatments, with a significant focus on Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and neuroscience and neural engineering.

The main fields of study for Elble include Medicine and Neuroscience, with subfields such as Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Rheumatology, Biomedical Engineering, and Cognitive Neuroscience. The scope of their work covers a wide range of topics including glycogen storage diseases and myoclonus, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Elble has published in several journals, with frequent contributions to Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Neurology, Movement Disorders, Clinical Neurophysiology, and the Journal of the Neurological Sciences.

Notable recent papers include:

  • The clinical and electrophysiological investigation of tremor, 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Evaluation of movement and brain activity, 2021, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Tremor rating scales and laboratory tools for assessing tremor, 2022, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Exploring Interrater Disagreement on Essential Tremor Using a Standardized Tremor Elements Assessment, 2021, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • A Phase 2 Proof-of-Concept, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of CX-8998 in Essential Tremor, 2021, Movement Disorders

Frequent coauthors with Elble include Ludy C. Shih, Hyder A. Jinnah, William G. Ondo, Kelly E. Lyons, and Margaret E. Gerbasi, reflecting a collaborative engagement in their areas of research.

Best Publications

  • Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): scale presentation and clinimetric testing results.

    Christopher G. Goetz;Barbara C. Tilley;Stephanie R. Shaftman;Glenn T. Stebbins

  • Consensus Statement on the classification of tremors. from the task force on tremor of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society

    Kailash P Bhatia;Peter Bain;Nin Bajaj;Rodger J Elble

  • Estrogen for Alzheimer’s disease in women Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Victor W. Henderson;A. Paganini-Hill;B. L. Miller;R. J. Elble

  • Animal Models of Action Tremor

    Rodger J. Elble

  • Treatment of patients with essential tremor

    Günther Deuschl;Jan Raethjen;Helge Hellriegel;Rodger Elble;Rodger Elble

  • Practice parameter: therapies for essential tremor: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

    T. A. Zesiewicz;T. A. Zesiewicz;R. Elble;E. D. Louis;R. A. Hauser

  • Evidence-based guideline update: Treatment of essential tremor Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

    Theresa A. Zesiewicz;Rodger J. Elble;E. D. Louis;Gary S. Gronseth

  • Stride-dependent changes in gait of older people.

    R. J. Elble;S. Sienko Thomas;C. Higgins;J. Colliver

  • Central mechanisms of tremor.

    Rodger J. Elble

  • Physiologic and essential tremor

    Rodger J. Elble

  • Motor-unit activity responsible for 8- to 12-Hz component of human physiological finger tremor.

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  • Assessment of interrater and intrarater reliability of the Fahn–Tolosa–Marin Tremor Rating Scale in essential tremor

    Mark A. Stacy;Rodger J. Elble;William G. Ondo;Shu Chen Wu

  • Essential Tremor--Neurodegenerative or Nondegenerative Disease Towards a Working Definition of ET

    Günther Deuschl;Rodger Elble

  • A randomized clinical trial of coenzyme Q10 and GPI-1485 in early Parkinson disease

    Karl Kieburtz;Bernard Ravina;Bernard Ravina;Wendy R. Galpern;Barbara Tilley

  • The initiation of normal walking

    Rodger J. Elble;Charles Moody;Keith Leffler;Raj Sinha

  • Reliability of a new scale for essential tremor

    Rodger Elble;Cynthia Comella;Stanley Fahn;Mark Hallett

  • Criteria for the diagnosis of essential tremor.

    P Bain;M Brin;G Deuschl;R Elble

  • The pathophysiology of essential tremor.

    G Deuschl;R J Elble

  • Tremor amplitude is logarithmically related to 4- and 5-point tremor rating scales

    Rodger J. Elble;Seth L. Pullman;Joseph Y. Matsumoto;Jan Raethjen

  • Diagnostic criteria for essential tremor and differential diagnosis.

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  • Topiramate in essential tremor: A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    William G. Ondo;J. Jankovic;G. S. Connor;R. Pahwa

  • Pentagon copying is more impaired in dementia with Lewy bodies than in Alzheimer's disease

    T A Ala;L F Hughes;G A Kyrouac;M W Ghobrial

  • Essential tremor frequency decreases with time.

    Rodger J. Elble

  • Testing objective measures of motor impairment in early Parkinson's disease: Feasibility study of an at-home testing device.

    Christopher G. Goetz;Glenn T. Stebbins;David Wolff;William DeLeeuw

  • Genomewide scans in North American families reveal genetic linkage of essential tremor to a region on chromosome 6p23.

    Alexey Shatunov;Nyamkhishig Sambuughin;Joseph Jankovic;Rodger Elble

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Elan D. Louis
Elan D. Louis The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jan Raethjen
Jan Raethjen Kiel University
Larry F. Hughes
Larry F. Hughes Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Ezio Giacobini
Ezio Giacobini University of Geneva
Muthuraman Muthuraman
Muthuraman Muthuraman Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Eng-King Tan
Eng-King Tan National University of Singapore
Caroline M. Tanner
Caroline M. Tanner University of California, San Francisco
Peter G. Bain
Peter G. Bain Imperial College London
Andrew B. Singleton
Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health

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