SEATTLE--Leonora Sleeter has suffered from essential tremor for 17 years. The movement disorder triggers uncontrollable shaking, making everyday tasks a challenge. "The major thing is eating," Sleeter ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved Medtronic’s Asleep Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for individuals diagnosed with ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – Millions of Americans deal with tremors every day and they can make it hard to perform daily functions like writing and drinking. Kim Zimmer has struggled with essential ...

Discover how groundbreaking insights into thalamic connectivity are reshaping treatment approaches for essential tremor, paving the way for personalized and more effective DBS therapies. Study: ...

Essential tremor. While it goes widely undetected, the movement disorder is actually eight times more common than Parkinson's disease. It goes undetected not because it's unnoticeable, but because ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — "It's such a difference. It's like all of a sudden you have your life back," Oscar La Salle said. At 76-years-old, La Salle, a retired marketing and sales specialist, has a renewed ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’ve been able to control my essential tremor with medication for years. But despite maximum doses, I am getting less benefit and experiencing side effects. Even drinking a cup of ...

LOS ANGELES — Unilateral deep-brain stimulation (DBS) reduces essential tremor and may help some patients avoid risk for greater side effects associated with bilateral DBS, a comparison study reveals.

Over the past two decades, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has supplanted lesioning techniques for the treatment of movement disorders, and has been shown to be safe and efficacious. The primary ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) can be an effective treatment for severe refractory essential tremor but new research suggests its efficacy fades over time. In a small study that followed patients for up ...

Reviewed by Aaron Miller, MD, Professor of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director at the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis, New York, NY ...

[Editor's note: After decades of involuntary shaking caused by essential tremor, freelancer Jerry Butler underwent deep brain stimulation at UAMS Medical Center. This is Part 2 appeared Sept. 27, and ...