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Hereditary essential tremor and restless legs syndrome.
Sir Essential tremor is usually considered to be a monosymptomatic disorder with variable clinical expression, about half of all cases demonstrating an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance.' Possible associations with other movement disorders have been described, including Parkinson's disease.2 We report a patient with hereditary essential tremor and the restless legs syndrome. A 71-year-o...
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OF PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS Striatun, Subst. nigra Red nucleus Cerebellum Case 1 Numerical Hassler (1939) reduction of small cells in caudate and putamen Case 2 Reduction of Hassler (1939) small cells. Small softenings in caudate and putamen Case 3 Fibrillar gliosis Mylle and van in pallidum Bogaert (1940) Case 4 Atrophy of Mylle and van putamen and Bogaert ( 1948) caudate-6tat cribl6, small softe...
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JMD Dear Editor, Tremor is a common clinical feature in dystonia. It can be seen in both affected and unaffected body parts in patients with dystonia. Clinically, it may not be easily distinguishable from essential tremor, currently defined as a bilateral, largely symmetric postural or kinetic tremor involving the hands and forearms that is visible and persistent, with an associated or isolated...
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BACKGROUND In patients with parkinsonian resting tremor, tremor-correlated activity in the contralateral sensorimotor cortex has been studied by both magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG). In essential tremor, MEG failed to detect cortical involvement. The objective of this study was to investigate whether EEG recording can reveal tremor-correlated cortical activity in p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1892
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189211000-00007