Essential tremor: clinical observations [PDF]
The authors have studied 53 patients with essential tremor, focusing its clinical and epidemiological aspects. There were familial history in 37.70% of all cases, prevailing in females (56.60%) and white people (69.80%); nevertheless this difference can ...
João S. Pereira+2 more
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Harmaline Tremor: Underlying Mechanisms in a Potential Animal Model of Essential Tremor [PDF]
Background: Harmaline and harmine are tremorigenic β-carbolines that, on administration to experimental animals, induce an acute postural and kinetic tremor of axial and truncal musculature.
Adrian Handforth
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Treatment with Botulinum Neurotoxin Improves Activities of Daily Living and Quality of Life in Patients with Upper Limb Tremor [PDF]
Background: Botulinum neurotoxin’s degree of effectiveness on upper limb tremor is subject to debate; although this treatment reduces the tremor’s amplitude, a clear functional benefit has not been demonstrated.
Alexandre Kreisler+3 more
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Dystonia and Tremor: The Clinical Syndromes with Isolated Tremor [PDF]
Background: Dystonia and tremor share many commonalities. Isolated tremor is part of the phenomenological spectrum of isolated dystonia and of essential tremor.
Alberto Albanese, Francesca Del Sorbo
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Unawareness of head tremor in essential tremor : a study of three samples of essential tremor patients [PDF]
Patients with Huntington disease may be unaware of their chorea, and patients with Parkinson disease often do not recognize or endorse their medication-induced dyskinesias.1, 2 Head tremor occurs in essential tremor (ET),3, 4 yet patients in our ...
Abadi+10 more
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Older onset essential tremor : more rapid progression and more degenerative pathology [PDF]
There are few data on rate of progression in essential tremor (ET). To quantify the rate of tremor progression in a cross-sectional sample of 348 ET cases in an epidemiological study; characterize the relationship between age of tremor onset and rate of ...
Erickson-Davis, Cordelia+10 more
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Propranolol significantly reduced DNA polymerase β expression in patients with essential tremor
Background Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder. Propranolol is a first-line medication for ET. We aimed to evaluate the effect of propranolol on the expression of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) and DNA polymerase beta ...
Nefise Kandemir+8 more
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Differential tractography identifies a distinct pattern of white matter alterations in essential tremor with or without resting tremor [PDF]
Essential Tremor (ET) is characterized by action tremor often associated with resting tremor (rET). Although previous studies have identified widespread brain white matter (WM) alterations in ET patients, differences between ET and rET have been less ...
Alessia Sarica+8 more
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Isolated Voice Tremor: A Clinical Variant of Essential Tremor or a Distinct Clinical Phenotype?
Background: The consensus statement by the Task Force on Tremor of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society excludes individuals with “isolated voice tremor” as a clinical variant of essential tremor (ET).
Julie M. Barkmeier-Kraemer
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Tremor as the onset of dystonia
The diagnosis of tremor is an important medical problem because its clinical variability defines a differential range of diseases. The purpose of this article is to provide a practicing neurologist with screening approaches to diagnosing tremor using a ...
Sabiyat A. Yakhyaeva +2 more
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