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The "Head Snap": A Subtle Clinical Feature During the Finger–Nose–Finger Maneuver in Essential Tremor

open access: yesTremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2013
Background:: Essential tremor is characterized by several hyperkinetic movements, including arm and head tremors.  We report another movement of the head in patients with essential tremor, which we term the "head snap." This was observed as a jerking ...
Eliezer J. Sternberg   +3 more
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Disabling Head Tremor in a Patient with DYT1 Mutation [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Movement Disorders, 2009
Dystonic head tremor is known to be a feature in some patients with DYT1 mutation. However, isolated tremor of the head without relevant cervical dystonia has rarely been described. We report here a patient with the three-bp GAG deletion in the DYT1 gene
Jae-Hyeok Lee   +3 more
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Integration of Osteopathic Manual Treatments in Management of Cervical Dystonia with Tremor: A Case Series

open access: yesTremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2017
Background: Cervical dystonia, also known as spasmodic torticollis, is a chronic disorder in which patients exhibit involuntary repetitive contractions of neck muscles resulting in abnormal postures or movements.
Miriam Halimi   +2 more
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Isolated head tremor

open access: yesНеврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика
Isolated head tremor (IHT) is a pathological condition characterized by tremor of the head without dystonic posturing or tremor in other parts of the body. In the past, head tremor was commonly referred to as essential tremor because it is very common in
Z. A. Zalyalova   +2 more
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Dystonia and Tremor: The Clinical Syndromes with Isolated Tremor

open access: yesTremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2016
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]

open access: yesMovement Disorders, 2008
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 ...
Pellegrino, Kathryn M.   +5 more
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Harmaline-Induced Tremor in Mice: Videotape Documentation and Open Questions About the Model

open access: yesTremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2013
Background: Harmaline‐induced tremor in rodents has been extensively used as an animal model for essential tremor (ET). However, there is no visual documentation in the published literature.Methods: We injected mice subcutaneously with either 20 mg/kg of
Melody M. Cheng   +2 more
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A comparison of the directionality of head tremor between essential and dystonic tremor

open access: yesGait & Posture, 2023
An essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder in adults. In clinical practice, it is often difficult to distinguish between an essential tremor with head tremor, or dystonic head tremor (DT) in cervical dystonia [1,2].
Hollý P.   +5 more
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A refractory head tremor appearing after volatile anesthesia combined with epidural anesthesia in a patient with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6

open access: yesJA Clinical Reports, 2018
A 64-year-old female patient with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 was referred to our department for pancreatic cancer and anesthetized with volatile anesthesia combined with epidural anesthesia for pancreaticoduodenectomy.
Takaya Nishida, Masayori Nakajima
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Segmented versus Nonsegmented Deep-Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor Differ in Ataxic Side Effects

open access: yesTremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2019
Background: Directional, deep-brain stimulation may prove beneficial for targets (1) thinner along the lead trajectory, and (2) whose borders are not easily visible by neuroimaging.
Daniel A. Roque
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