Cortical Tremor (CT) with coincident orthostatic movements

Cortical tremor (CT) is a form of cortical reflex myoclonus that can mimic essential tremor (ET). Clinical features that are helpful in distinguishing CT from ET are the irregular and jerky appearance of the movements. We report two patients with CT with coexisting orthostatic movements, either orth...

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Autores principales: Termsarasab, Pichet, Frucht, Steven J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-014-0013-0
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description Cortical tremor (CT) is a form of cortical reflex myoclonus that can mimic essential tremor (ET). Clinical features that are helpful in distinguishing CT from ET are the irregular and jerky appearance of the movements. We report two patients with CT with coexisting orthostatic movements, either orthostatic tremor (OT) or myoclonus, who experienced functional improvement in both cortical myoclonus and orthostatic movements when treated with levetiracetam. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40734-014-0013-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-47110362016-01-19 Cortical Tremor (CT) with coincident orthostatic movements Termsarasab, Pichet Frucht, Steven J J Clin Mov Disord Case Report Cortical tremor (CT) is a form of cortical reflex myoclonus that can mimic essential tremor (ET). Clinical features that are helpful in distinguishing CT from ET are the irregular and jerky appearance of the movements. We report two patients with CT with coexisting orthostatic movements, either orthostatic tremor (OT) or myoclonus, who experienced functional improvement in both cortical myoclonus and orthostatic movements when treated with levetiracetam. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40734-014-0013-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4711036/ /pubmed/26788343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-014-0013-0 Text en © Termsarasab and Frucht; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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