Essential Tremor
Essential Tremor
Essential tremor (ET) is a brain condition that is thought to arise from abnormal electrical brain activity, leading to uncontrollable shaky movements (tremors) of the hands, limbs, head or voice. Learn more
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Treatment for ET
At Sperling Neurosurgery Associates, we offer Neuravive MRgFUS – a breakthrough treatment for Essential Tremor. Learn more
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How Does Your Essential Tremor Affect Those Who Love You?

Essential Tremor and Your Loved Ones - Sperling Neurosurgery Associates

About 7 million Americans have essential tremor (ET) according to estimates. Depending on how long a person has had ET, plus the level of disability caused by tremors, a person with ET is likely to experience some degree of psychological suffering. Other factors enter in: personality, support from family and friends, economics, etc. have a keep reading

How to Feed Your Brain

Diet for a Healthy Brain - Sperling Neurosurgery Associates

Few things in nature that weigh a mere three pounds are as complex and amazing as the human brain. For comparison, an elephant brain is closer to thirteen pounds, yet elephants have not done things like paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, composed a symphony, or sent a rocket to the moon. That’s not keep reading

Want Optimum Brain Health? Eat More Fish

Eat More Fish for Optimal Brain Health - Sperling Neurosurgery Associated

The body can synthesize most of the fats it needs from your diet; however, omega-3s are different. They’re considered “essential” fatty acids because the human body requires them for good health but cannot make them on its own. Simply put, omega-3 fatty acids are essential.-University Health News Ask any expert. Omega-3 fatty acids are required keep reading

Better Diet, Bigger Brain

“…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

Give Your Brain a Healthy Workout

Scientists are closing in on which parts of the brain have malfunctions that lead to essential tremor (ET). Although no one knows yet what causes those malfunctions to begin, there is imaging-based evidence of physical differences between the brains of people who have ET and the brains of those who don’t. For instance, in ET keep reading

2 Vitamin Studies Shed Light on Essential Tremor and Nutrition

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This quote, attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, seems like forgotten advice in an age when drugs are heavily marketed to consumers as the pathway to health. This promised pathway is a big disappointment for individuals with essential tremor (ET). ET is the most keep reading

12 Fun Facts About Your Brain

Do you ever wonder about your own brain? Do you think, “Gosh, I wonder how much my brain weighs?” or “If I’m so smart, why am I having trouble multitasking?” The brain has three main parts: the cerebrum, the cerebellum (“little brain”) and the brain stem. When the brain is functioning normally, each part fulfills keep reading

Acupuncture is used in Korea to reduce tremor.

Essential Tremor and CAM, Part I: Acupuncture and Pharmacopuncture I thought it would be interesting to do a small series of blogs on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments for essential tremor (ET). Standard medicine (also called Western, allopathic, mainstream or conventional medicine) was slow to embrace CAM until roughly the last four decades, and keep reading

Lack of Vitamin B12 can cause tremor symptoms.

Essential Tremor and CAM, Part II: Vitamins As I wrote in Part I of this series, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) developed a large following during the last three or four decades. There is considerable interest in the preventive or therapeutic properties of substances such as herbs or mushrooms that occur naturally, and healing practices keep reading

The Mediterranean diet may lower risk of essential tremor.

Can the Mediterranean Diet Reduce Tremor Risk? “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” The first known use of this adage occurred in Wales in the 1860s, but apples have a respectable history of being recognized as a support for healthful living. While some foods can keep reading

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