OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical characteristics, associated features, and treatment response of a large orthostatic tremor series seen over a 26-year period. METHODS We reviewed the medical records of 45 patients seen between 1987 and 2013 who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for orthostatic tremor. RESULTS The mean age at onset was 59.5 years and 23/45 (51%) were men. A family history ...

INTRODUCTION The ventrolateral (VL) nucleus of the thalamus is the commonly chosen target for deep brain stimulation (DBS) to alleviate tremor. However, it has a poor efficacy in alleviating proximal tremor and patients may develop tolerance to the action component of tremor. We performed bilateral stimulation of the caudal or motor part of the zona incerta nucleus (cZI) to determine its safety...

BACKGROUND Unilateral hand tremor is one of the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Additionally, mechanical traumatic hand movement is one of the risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome. Our objective in this study was to examine whether repetitive mechanical movement may be related to the development of carpal tunnel syndrome in Parkinson's disease with unilateral hand tremor using neur...

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 tremor progression in that sample; and characterize the relationship between age of tremor onset, rate of tremor progression, and severity of u...

Sturman, Molly M., David E. Vaillancourt, and Daniel M. Corcos. Effects of aging on the regularity of physiological tremor. J Neurophysiol 93: 3064–3074, 2005. First published February 16, 2005; doi:10.1152/jn.01218.2004. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of healthy aging on the regularity of physiological tremor under rest and postural conditions. Additionally, we ...

One of the important areas modern neurology is movement disorders, due to their negative impact on daily activity and quality life patients. Dystonia third most common extrapyramidal disease. Often, dystonia accompanied by trembling hyperkinesis, however, known data dystonic tremor are scattered not systematized, its fixation causes difficulties lack clear tremorographic characteristics. Many i...

INTRODUCTION Patients with cervical dystonia (CD) often have limb tremor that is clinically indistinguishable from essential tremor (ET). Whether a common central mechanism underlies the tremor in these conditions is unknown. We addressed this issue by quantifying limb tremor in 19 patients with CD and 35 patients with ET. METHOD Postural, resting and kinetic tremors were quantified (amplitud...

The most frequently seen types of tremor are essential (ET) and parkinsonian tremor (PT) and in some patients clinical characteristics of these tremor types overlap. It is vital to distinguish between these two types of tremor in order to reach the right diagnosis and select the appropriate treatment. One of the widely used methods for tremor detection and discrimination, appropriate for a quic...

We propose hand tremor as a new type of input that can corroborate psychosocial conditions. An Android application was able to distinguish tremor variability differences between people with and without diagnosed hand tremor. Tremor measurements also corroborated self-assessment of sleep quality. Hand tremor evaluation may be a monitorable, implicit input to systems that respond to various psych...

INTRODUCTION Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a standard therapy for the treatment of select cases of medication refractory essential tremor and Parkinson's disease however the effectiveness and long-term outcomes of DBS in other uncommon and complex tremor syndromes has not been well established. Traditionally, the ventralis intermedius nucleus (VIM) of the thalamus has been considered ...