Month: September 2018

“…millions of individuals [with ET] suffer to varying degrees with embarrassment and humiliation, social isolation and difficulties holding down a job or performing the tasks of daily life. When you cannot drink a glass of water or eat soup without spilling it because your hand shakes violently, you are unlikely to join others for a keep reading

“…diet, a modifiable lifestyle factor, holds the ability to modulate brain health and function.” From Murphy et al. 2014 What’s the best way to measure brain health? Is it by observing how well a person performs on paper-and-pencil challenges? Movement tests? Social behavior? Brain structure based on imaging? An additional way might be to infer optimum brain keep reading

Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder. It most often affects the hands and can progress from barely visible tremors to severe motions that make the most ordinary tasks impossible. Medication helps about 50% of cases, but often loses effectiveness or leads to unwanted side effects. Because of this, researchers and clinicians are keep reading

The world of tremors is filled with mysteries and puzzles. Not even the best medical professionals can unravel every person’s unique situation. According to one source, general neurologists treating tremor have a diagnostic error rate of 25% to 35%.i This is partly due to the fact that there are different categories of tremors, and there keep reading

“Over the last 25 years, there has been a gradual acknowledgment that essential tremor (ET) is comprised of much more than a benign rhythmic oscillation of a limb.”i ET is indeed a much bigger problem than “the shakes,” as many people refer to it. Not only can it progress from barely noticeable trembling to an keep reading

“Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves…Britons never will be slaves” You may not be familiar with the words of Rule, Britannia, an eighteenth century British patriotic song, but you would undoubtedly recognize the tune. It was written when the British navy dominated the globe, and is a proud statement of freedom. As anyone with essential keep reading

Modern neurosurgery did not really begin until the late 19th century, when surgeons opened the meninges to operate directly on the brain. But these first years were difficult ones: the survival rate for any surgical procedure that involved opening the skull was only 10%! from The Brain from Top to Bottom Blog Operating directly on keep reading