Category: Quality of Life

How Many Hours a Day Do You Tremor?

How Many Hours a Day Do You Tremor? - Sperling Neurosurgery Associates
Essential tremor (ET) is often incorrectly diagnosed as Parkinson’s disease (PD). ET used to be called “benign essential tremor” as if it were a fairly harmless condition in comparison with something as feared as PD. However, we now know that that ET is anything but benign. While it is considered non-life threatening, it can obliterate keep reading

Education Lowers Dementia Risk During Essential Tremor

Education protects against dementia Dementia is a progressive decline in mental function, characterized by increasing memory loss, personality changes, and inability to reason things through. The term itself is something of a catch-all, since there are different types of dementia. Some are linked with certain degenerative neurologic diseases like Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease. Another keep reading