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Peripheral silent periods in essential tremor
G Shukla1, M Bhatia, R M Pandey
1Clinical Neurophysiology, I/C of Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
Background:
Pathophysiology of essential tremor (ET) is controversial. In the present study, peripherally induced silent period (SP) in ET patients is studied.
Aims And Objectives:
To study if the peripherally induced SP was different in ET patients as compared to age matched healthy controls.
Material And Methods:
24 patients of ET diagnosed according to diagnostic criteria of Louis et al. [Neurology 50 (1998) 1351] (mean age 45.37+/-14.86 years) and an equal number of healthy controls (mean age 36.21+/-15.72 years) were recruited for the study. Peripherally induced SP was recorded according to the methods already described. Student's t-test and Wilcoxon sign rank test were used for statistical analysis.
Results:
The peripheral SP was 50.29+/-50.15 and 93.04+/-35.93 ms (p=0.0014) in ET patients and controls respectively.
Conclusion:
Our study shows that peripheral silent period is shorter in patients of ET as compared to normal individuals.