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ReviewTremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)2024

Six Myths and Misconceptions about Essential Tremor.

Elan D Louis

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Review in Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Degenerative Changes in the Essential Tremor Cerebellum.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Elan D LouisDepartment of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2062-362X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are myths and misperceptions about most human diseases, and neurological diseases are no exception. In many instances, myths and misconceptions reflect what is no more than the collective failure of the field to catch up with the state of the science in that field. Hence, one may perhaps refer to these as "lags" rather than myths. As the field of medicine attempts to be evidence-based, it is best to remain true to published data and the state of the science. In this paper, I review six myths and misconceptions about ET. Myth 1 relates to the natural history and prognosis of ET. Myths 2 and 3 relate to the biological basis of ET, whereas myths 4 and 5 relate to the expression of the core clinical feature of ET. Finally, myth 6 focuses on the issue of disease classification. The myths are as follows:

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Essential TremorHumansPrognosisclassificationclinicalEssential tremormisconceptionsmortalitymyths

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PMID39346807
PMCPMC11428667

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