scholarly journals Estimating the Proportion of Essential Tremor and Parkinson's Disease Patients Undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery: Five-Year Data From Columbia University Medical Center (2009-2014)

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meir Kestenbaum ◽  
Blair Ford ◽  
Elan D. Louis
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Deep Brain Stimulation ◽  
Essential Tremor ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery ◽  
Deep Brain

A Tremor with an Abnormal Posture

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robertus M. A. de Bie ◽  
Susanne E. M. Ten Holter
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Deep Brain Stimulation ◽  
Essential Tremor ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Movement Disorders ◽  
Beta Blockers ◽  
Dystonic Tremor ◽  
Abnormal Posture ◽  
Deep Brain

Dystonic tremors are a commonly misdiagnosed group of primary tremor disorders, typically mistaken for Parkinson’s disease or essential tremor. Like most movement disorders, this is a clinical diagnosis, so the overlap in some features between all of these disorders can be confusing to less experienced and even more experienced physicians. A tremor in the presence of a dystonia is a dystonic tremor syndrome, regardless of the clinical features. Treatment of dystonic tremor can be challenging without the same gratifying response seen to levodopa in tremor associated with Parkinson’s disease or to beta-blockers and primidone in essential tremor. Deep-brain stimulation remains an option in the most disabling cases.

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