Month: August 2019

In 2016 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) for the treatment of medication-resistant essential tremor (ET). That decision opened a whole new world for patients who desperately want to regain normal hand use but are put off by the idea of a hole drilled in the skull and hardware keep reading

Essential Tremor (ET), the most common movement disorder, causes shaking of the hands, voice or other parts of the body. Some people with ET also have mild cognitive dysfunction, but it’s unclear if it comes from the same origin in the brain as the uncontrollable movement. Cognitive function is not the same as intelligence When keep reading

Essential tremor (ET) is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Either one is scary, since both have no known cause or cure. Also, both ET and PD are progressive, meaning future deterioration is expected. While ET does not have the same devastating consequences at PD, it occurs eight times more often. One might think, then, keep reading

Essential tremor (ET) is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary shaking of the hands, head, voice and other parts of the body. Trembling hands are most obvious giveaway that something isn’t “normal”. Despite the estimated 7 million people who suffer with ET – a number that far exceeds the number of patients with Parkinson’s disease keep reading