The features, causes and management strategies for essential tremor and how nurses can support patients with this common ...

A 76-year-old man makes an appointment for an evaluation of shakiness. The patient’s past medical history is notable for hypertension, depression and mild COPD ...

A recent study found that the way cerebellar neurons communicate with other brain regions is different in various movement disorders. The cerebellum is a region of the brain that helps us refine our ...

The cerebellum is a region of the brain that helps us refine our movements and learn new motor skills. Patients and mouse models experience many kinds of abnormal movements when their cerebellum is ...

A new study suggests that patients with essential tremor have unusual brain waves in the cerebellum that cause the tremors (the same brain waves in mice produce tremor). The left image show a ...

HONOLULU — New imaging data may explain how transcutaneous afferent patterned stimulation (TAPS), a noninvasive, wearable therapy, works in patients with essential tremor (ET). In a small study that ...

Q: I am 65 years old, and my hands started to shake a couple of years ago. Last week my doctor told me I had essential tremor but that I could wait to do something until it got worse. Please tell me ...

Purkinje cell subpopulations have varying vulnerability to age-related neurodegeneration, creating a striped pattern of cell loss that reflects the developmental, anatomical, and functional ...