scholarly journals A functional micro-electrode mapping of ventral thalamus in essential tremor

Brain ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J Pedrosa ◽  
Peter Brown ◽  
Hayriye Cagnan ◽  
Veerle Visser-Vandewalle ◽  
Jochen Wirths ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Essential Tremor ◽  
Ventral Thalamus

Long-term deep brain stimulation in a patient with essential tremor: clinical response and postmortem correlation with stimulator termination sites in ventral thalamus

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Boockvar ◽  
Albert Telfeian ◽  
Gordon H. Baltuch ◽  
Brett Skolnick ◽  
Tanya Simuni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Brain Stimulation ◽  
Essential Tremor ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tremor Suppression ◽  
Ventral Thalamus ◽  
Postmortem Studies ◽  
Motor Thalamus ◽  
Deep Brain

✓ Essential tremor can be suppressed with chronic, bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventralis intermedius nucleus (Vim), the cerebellar receiving area of the motor thalamus. The goal in this study was to correlate the location of the electrodes with the clinical efficacy of DBS in a patient with essential tremor. The authors report on a woman with essential tremor in whom chronic bilateral DBS directed to the ventral thalamus produced adequate tremor suppression until her death from unrelated causes 16 months after placement of the electrodes. Neuropathological postmortem studies of the brain in this patient demonstrated that both stimulators terminated in the Vim region of the thalamus, and that chronic DBS elicited minor reactive changes confined to the immediate vicinity of the electrode tracks. Although the authors could not identify neuropathological abnormalities specific to essential tremor, they believe that suppression of essential tremor by chronic DBS correlates with bilateral termination of the stimulators in the Vim region of the thalamus.

Essential tremor and tremor in Parkinson's disease are associated with distinct ‘tremor clusters’ in the ventral thalamus

2012 ◽  
Vol 237 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Pedrosa ◽  
Christiane Reck ◽  
Esther Florin ◽  
K. Amande M. Pauls ◽  
Mohammad Maarouf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Essential Tremor ◽  
Ventral Thalamus

Electrophysiological approach to the study of essential tremor in children and adolescents

2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (09) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Fusco ◽  
J Valls-Solé ◽  
C Iturriaga ◽  
J Colomer ◽  
E Fernández-Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Essential Tremor
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