Essential Tremors

Essential tremors mimicking as dysgraphia.

A 13 years male was referred to the Learning Disability Clinic with the complaint of illegible handwriting, dropping academic grades with a possibility of dysgraphia. The handwriting fluency and legibility deteriorated in time controlled situations such as examinations. He was slow in copying but had no issues with concentration, retrieval and had a good memory. Family history of tremors in fat...

Essential Tremors Mimicking as Dysgraphia

A 13 years male was referred to the Learning Disability Clinic with the complaint of illegible handwriting, dropping academic grades with a possibility of dysgraphia. The handwriting fluency and legibility deteriorated in time controlled situations such as examinations. He was slow in copying but had no issues with concentration, retrieval and had a good memory. Family history of tremors in fat...

The Essential Tremors: A Family of Neurodegenerative Disorders?

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common pathological tremor in humans. The traditional view of ET, as a mono-symptomatic condition, is being replaced by an appreciation of the spectrum of clinical features, with both motor and non-motor elements. These features are not distributed homogeneously across patients. In addition, post-mortem studies are now demonstrating distinct structural changes ...

'Essential tremor' or 'the essential tremors': is this one disease or a family of diseases?

There is accumulating evidence that the entity referred to as 'essential tremor' (ET) is not a single disease. It may be a family of diseases better referred to as 'the ETs'. This review will summarize the following evidence: (1) the presence of etiological heterogeneity; (2) the heterogeneity of findings in postmortem studies, thus suggesting several diseases; (3) the recent discussion that ag...

Tremors of the smile.