Innovative treatments for essential tremor, including deep brain stimulation surgery for certain patients. Rehabilitation specialists trained in neurologic disorders. “Asleep” DBS under general ...
Cerebral Causes and Consequences of Parkinsonian Resting Tremor
Tremor is characterized clinically by involuntary, rhythmic and alternating movements of one or more body parts (Abdo et al., 2010). Parkinson's disease harbours many different tremors. These ...
Fifteen minute consultation: Tremor in children
Tremor is defined as a rhythmic, involuntary, oscillatory movement of body parts. Although constituting nearly 20% of presentations with paediatric movement disorders, tremor in childhood, beginning ...
Spastic paraparesis, cerebellar ataxia, and intention tremor: a severe variant of FXTAS?
Fragile X associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS ... in conduction latency and a lack of response by cortical stimulation. EMG showed a mildly neurogenic response. Testing for infectious and ...
What can cause shaky hands?
All normal persons exhibit physiologic tremor. Essential Tremor. Essential tremor is the most common neurologic disorder that causes postural or action tremor. Parkinson’s Disease. What is causing my ...
The Most Common Early Sign of MS All Women Need to Know About
When it comes to early Multiple Sclerosis (MS) signs and symptoms, here is what women should be paying attention to.
Why do my fingers tremble sometimes?
Essential tremor is also the most common neurologic disorder affecting adults, but it’s not well-understood. It’s likely caused by a disruption in the normal functioning of the cerebellum. What causes ...
Deep Brain Stimulation for Tremor
Tremor responds to stimulation very quickly ... before you are recommended for this surgery to make sure the risk of problems is low. Fortunately, neurologic side effects of STN DBS have been very ...
A Pilot Study of Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor
and neurologic examinations were performed for sensation, speech, and motor strength. This protocol was continued until tremor suppression was observed (Fig. S1 in the Supplementary Appendix ...
Drug-Induced Neurologic Conditions
Drug-induced neurologic conditions may result from single-agent drug regimens, but they are more likely to occur when multiple agents that confer risk are administered concomitantly. Educating ...
Pramipexole in patients with Parkinson's disease and marked drug resistant tremor: a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled multicentre study
Methods: Eighty four patients with early or advanced Parkinson's disease and marked, drug resistant tremor under a stable and optimised antiparkinsonian medication were included in a double blind, ...
