Limb temperature and human tremors.

Limb temperature and human tremors.

The changes in postural tremor of the hand produced by moderate cooling of the muscles of one forearm have been investigated in 16 normal subjects and in 16 patients with essential tremor. In both groups, cooling produced a profound long lasting decrease in tremor level of the ipsilateral hand. In normal subjects, although cooling reduced the tremor size, the EMG of the active muscle clearly in...

Tremors of the smile.

Effects of Wrist Weighing in Reducing Upper Limb Tremors in Patients with Cerebellar Lesions

Background: An intentional tremor is one of the most untreated causes in patients with cerebellar ataxia. Upper limb tremors decreases the performance of many activities of daily life Thus treatment of patients with tremor probably implies better functional ability. It is one of the major areas of concern to improve functional independence hence, this study proposed to know the effects of wrist...

Pathophysiology of nonparkinsonian tremors.

Patients with nonparkinsonian tremors are the second largest group treated with functional neurosurgery. We summarize the present pathophysiological knowledge of these conditions. Essential tremor (ET) may be due to oscillations within the olivocerebellar circuit. There is experimental evidence from animal models for such a mechanism, and clinical data indicate an abnormal function of the cereb...

Concurrent Parkinson tremors.

1. Concurrent resting and postural tremors of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease were monitored using transducers responding to angular velocity of rotation. Spectra and correlation functions were calculated for each pair of records. 2. When concurrent tremor spectra share indistinguishable fundamental frequencies, have statistically significant peaks in their coherence spectra at tho...