SEATTLE — About 5% of people over the age of 60 experience essential tremor, a nervous system condition that causes involuntary movements most frequently affecting the hands. “Essentially if you want ...

Katharine Hepburn had it. So did playwright Eugene O'Neill and Sen. Robert Byrd. Essential tremor is a condition that causes involuntary shaking. While it usually develops in middle age, it can start ...

Duke neurologists have now begun a non-invasive program to minimize or eliminate essential tremors. It's a condition that causes uncontrollable shaking of the hands, often seen in patients with ...

The features, causes and management strategies for essential tremor and how nurses can support patients with this common ...

Imagine not being able to hold your hot cup of coffee in the morning. Your hands shake so much, you can’t hold a spoon well enough to eat ice cream. It’s your loved one's birthday, and you want to ...

A neural pathway known as the "tremor network" regulates movement and runs between the motor cortex (A), thalamus (B) and cerebellum (C). Messages need to flow smoothly along this network, before ...

UNC Health is celebrating the addition of new technology to the hospital system in Chapel Hill, more than five years after efforts began to offer high-intensity focused ultrasounds. High-intensity ...

A woman who set up a support group for people with tremors says there needs to be more awareness of the condition. After being diagnosed with essential tremor - a neurological condition causing ...