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Margaret McGurn¹, Nikki Delgado¹, Nora Hernandez¹

¹Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements (New York, N.Y.)

|April 5, 2021

Abstract

Background:

Essential tremor (ET) is a progressive neurological disease whose natural history is one of progressive increase in tremor severity over time; surprisingly though, there are no published videotape diaries that visually and tangibly portray this progression over time.

Phenomenology:

Progressive, stepwise increase in limb tremor severity over a ten-to-fifteen-year period in three patients with ET.

Educational Value:

We hope that this brief visual diary will serve as a useful teaching tool for students, primary care physicians, and neurologists to "see with their own eyes" the extent of change that can occur in the ETs.

Keywords:

Essential tremor clinical phenotype progression

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