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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2013

What is essential tremor?

Rodger J Elble

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. The Problem of Questionable Dystonia in the Diagnosis of 'Essential Tremor-Plus'.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2020
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  18. Transcriptomic Changes Resulting FromFrontiers in genetics · 2020
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  19. Parkinsonism in essential tremor cases: A clinicopathological study.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2019
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  20. Deficits in tapping accuracy and variability in tremor patients.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rodger J ElbleDepartment of Neurology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 19643, Springfield, IL 62794-9643, USA. relble@siumed.edu
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine · US

Funding

Neuroprotection in Parkinson Disease: Clinical CenterU10NS044450 · NINDS · SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCH OF MED · PI ELBLE, RODGER · 2002 to 2013
$853k
Critical Research Issues in Essential TremorR13NS052017 · NINDS · SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE · PI ELBLE, RODGER · 2005 to 2005
$16k
NINDS NIH HHS R13 NS052017NINDS NIH HHS U10 NS044450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Classic essential tremor is a clinical syndrome of action tremor in the upper limbs (at least 95 % of patients) and less commonly the head, face/jaw, voice, tongue, trunk, and lower limbs, in the absence of other neurologic signs. However, the longstanding notion that essential tremor is a monosymptomatic tremor disorder is being challenged by a growing literature describing associated disturbances of tandem walking, personality, mood, hearing, and cognition. There is also epidemiologic, pathologic, and genetic evidence that essential tremor is pathophysiologically heterogeneous. Misdiagnosis of essential tremor is common because clinicians frequently overlook other neurologic signs and because action tremor in the hands is caused by many conditions, including dystonia, Parkinson disease, and drug-induced tremor. Thus, essential tremor is nothing more than a syndrome of idiopathic tremulousness, and the challenge for researchers and clinicians is to find specific etiologies of this syndrome.

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Essential TremorHumans

Identifiers

PMID23591755
PMCPMC3674100
OpenAlexW1988613431

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