A male miniature Dachshund, twenty-two months of age, was referred with paroxysmal generalized tremors as a main clinical sign. There were no abnormalities in the neurological examination except the lack of bilateral menace responses, and in the magnetic resonance imaging of its brain. Analysis of cerebro-spinal fluid revealed a slight rise in protein concentration and an increase in the number...

INTRODUCTION Palatal tremor, characterized by rhythmic contractions of the soft palate, can occur secondary to pathology in the dentato-rubro-olivary pathway, or in the absence of such structural lesions. Its pathogenesis is only partially understood. We describe a case of probable drug-induced palatal tremor. CASE PRESENTATION A 27-year-old Indian man had taken carbamazepine and lithium for ...

A sophisticated and smart story stiffness system identification (SI) method for a shear building model is applied to a full-scale building frame subjected to micro-tremors. The advantageous and novel feature is that not only the modal parameters, such as natural frequencies and damping ratios but also the physical model parameters, such as story stiffnesses and damping coefficients, can be iden...

[1] New seismic observations of harmonic tremors beneath MacAyeal Ice Stream, West Antarctica are reported. Each of the two tremor events that we recorded during a six week period had sustained arrival of 3 Hz energy for approximately 10 minutes. During that time the source location migrated a few kilometers. The harmonic nature of the tremors is interpreted as the result of resonance in subgla...

Fahr's syndrome is a rare idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder which can present with wide spectrum of symptoms. It is characterized by bilateral symmetrical dystrophic intracranial calcification. It most commonly involves basal ganglia. A 30 years old male patient presented with progressive speech slurring and tremors of the right upper limb for last five years. His brain imaging studies reve...

It has been hypothesized that tremors associated with Parkinson's disease result from pathologically synchronized neural activity in the motor control region of the brain, and that deep brain stimulation (DBS) relieves the tremors by desynchronizing these neurons. With the goal of improving such treatment of Parkinson's disease, we have been using optimal control theory to develop DBS stimuli w...

DESCRIPTION A 37-year-old man developed low grade fever during January 2007 for which he received symptomatic treatment following which he gradually noticed a tremor of his left hand thatmade it difficult for him towrite and even to put his signature. The tremors gradually progressed to his arms and trunk and he also developed a nodding movement in his head. There was progressive slowness in wa...

COMMENTARY " The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. " —Mark Twain I f 77-year-old Guadalupe has never had a seizure in her life, why has she just been discharged from the hospital after a seizure medication overdose? To answer that question, let us retrace the steps of an elderly Spanish-speaking patient through...