Patients with Essential Tremor Live Longer than their Relatives
Objective: The objective of this study is to compare the lifespans of patients with essential tremor (ET) with their relatives. Background: Essential tremor is a movement disorder…Ascertainment of Impaired Balance in Orthostatic Tremor Patients
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine if there is impairment of balance in orthostatic tremor patients which is against the current thinking…Essential Tremor and Depression
Objective: To determine if depression and neuropsychiatric symptoms are more prevalent in patients with essential tremor (ET) compared with non-ET controls and if so, to establish…Cannabis and Parkinson’s Disease Tremor
Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the effect of Cannabis on Parkinson’s disease (PD) tremor using advanced motion detection technology and qualitative…Head tremor in supine position does not differentiate essential tremor and cervical dystonia
Objective: Using objective instrumental methods, we aimed to verify the clinical utility of sitting/supine test and other clinical features to differentiate between ET and DT.…Tremor Characteristics in Essential Tremor and Dystonic Tremor
Objective: To explore the characteristics of tremor in patients with ET and DT by using neurophysiologic measures. Background: Tremor features in patients with essential tremor…Tremor in motorneuron disease: central or peripheral origin?
Objective: To investigate whether postural/action tremor in motorneuron disease (MND) has a central origin. Background: MND refers to the whole spectrum of progressive degenerative diseases…Functional lesional neurosurgery for tremor – a systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective: To evaluate the consistency and effect size as well as the incidence of persistent side effects of lesional neurosurgical interventions using radiofrequency ablation (RF),…A Service Evaluation of the Clinical Use of Parkinson’s KinetiGraph (PKG) Movement Recording System in the Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Tremor
Objective: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of PKG Movement Recording System in the assessment process to aid recognition and understanding of tremor in patients with Parkinson’s disease…TETRAS applicability and study design in randomized, placebo controlled clinical trial of Cav3 modulation for essential tremor patients.
Objective: We will study CX-8998, a selective Cav3 antagonist with safety data in 194 patients, in the treatment of ET. Few large controlled ET trials…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.