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Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies in Tremor Disorders

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Tremor particularly affects the upper limbs but can involve almost any part of the body including the head, face, eyelids, tongue, vocal cords, and trunk. In a Consensus Statement of the Movement Disorders Society, tremor is defined as “a rhythmic, involuntary, oscillatory movement of a body part” (Deuschl et al. 1998). As with most definitions of movement disorders there is an immediate problem with the words used, in this case with “rhythmic.” In Webster’s dictionary there are 10 definitions of “rhythm” the first being “movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like.” In current clinical practice when there are regular oscillations the term tremor is used with “rhythmic” and “regular” essentially having the same meaning.

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Grattan-Smith, P.J., Dale, R.C. (2013). Tremor in Childhood. In: Grimaldi, G., Manto, M. (eds) Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies in Tremor Disorders. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4027-7_17

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