Intention tremor of the head in patients with essential tremor

Julie Leegwater-Kim; Elan D. Louis; Seth L. Pullman; Alicia G. Floyd; Sarah Borden; Carol B. Moskowitz; Lawrence S. Honig

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Intention tremor of the head in patients with essential tremor

Julie Leegwater-Kim, Elan D. Louis, Seth L. Pullman, Alicia G. Floyd, Sarah Borden, Carol B. Moskowitz, Lawrence S. Honig

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Patients with essential tremor (ET) have kinetic arm tremor; this tremor can also have an intentional component. We are unaware of reports of intention tremor of the head in ET. Our aims were to describe, provide electrophysiological data and video documentation of, and estimate the prevalence of intention tremor of the head in our sample. Ten (9.0%; 95% confidence interval = 4.7%-14.3%) of 111 patients had intention tremor of the head; in 7 it involved the neck and in 3 the chin. These patients trended toward having more severe kinetic arm tremor and they bad more severe intention tremor of the arms. These observations provide further support for the evolving view that the cerebellum may be involved in ET.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2001-2005
Number of pages	5
Journal	Movement Disorders
Volume	21
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.21079
State	Published - Nov 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cerebellum
Essential tremor
Head tremor
Intention tremor

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Neurology
Clinical Neurology

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