...Jean Filo; Martina L. Mustroph; Melissa M.J. Chua; Philip J. White; Nathan J. McDannold; G. Rees Cosgrove Introduction: Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy effectively treats medication-resistant essential tremor (ET). Usually, intracranial calcifications are excluded...

...Valentin Mira; Babette Zwaard; Emmanuelle Boutin; Etienne Guillaud; Axelle Cretol; Jean Régis; Jean-Philippe Azulay; Tatiana Witjas; Marianne Vaugoyeau Introduction: Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder, characterized by an action tremor in the upper limbs. Neurosurgical...

... for his disabling medically refractory essential tremor. The intervention resulted in a marked reduction of his action tremor. However, the patient developed an unvoluntary abnormal posture in his left hand a few days after the procedure with difficulty holding a cigarette between his fingers. Brain MRI...

...Julia M. Mueller; Lucinda T. Chiu; Fiona Lynn; Rachel G. Lewis; Shama Patel; Matthew Wodziak; Neepa Patel; Sepehr Sani Introduction: Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is an effective treatment option for essential tremor (ET) and tremor dominant Parkinson’s disease (TDPD), which...

... with disabling medically refractory essential tremor who underwent successful right-sided magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) of the ventral intermediate nucleus after ipsilateral gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) thalamotomy performed 3 years earlier. The GKRS had a partial effect on her...

..., clinical use cases, and surgical technique are described in a cohort of 12 patients with epilepsy, essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease, mixed tremor, and Tourette’s syndrome with comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder between July 2021 and July 2022. Results: This system is a rechargeable 32-channel, 4...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 Essential tremor Flip angle, magnetic resonance imaging Stereotactic thalamotomy Transcranial magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery Transmitter gain Transcranial magnetic resonance-guided focused...

...Rishabh Gupta; Danika Paulo; Lili Sun; Fei Ye; Kaltra Dhima; Sarah K. Bick Background: Essential tremor (ET) patients present with both motor and non-motor symptoms including depression. Although deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) is used to treat motor symptoms...

...Isabel Sastre-Bataller; Marina Campins-Romeu; Andrés Marcos-Carrión; Antonio Gutiérrez-Martín; Rebeca Conde-Sardón; Mireya Losada-López; José M. Santabárbara-Gómez; José L. León- Guijarro; Vicente Belloch; Andrés M. Lozano; Irene Martínez-Torres Introduction: Essential tremor (ET) is one...

...Shiro Horisawa; Taku Nonaka; Kotaro Kohara; Tatsuki Mochizuki; Takakazu Kawamata; Takaomi Taira Introduction: With the advent of MR-guided focused ultrasound, the importance of the efficacy and safety of bilateral ventral intermediate (Vim) thalamotomy for essential tremor (ET) has increased...

... Essential tremor Patient-reported outcomes Thalamotomy Upwards of 5% of adults over the age of 65 years suffer from essential tremor (ET) [ 1 ]. This disease is most commonly characterized by disabling postural and kinetic tremors of one or both upper extremities, although patients may exhibit...

...Alexandra Boogers; Tine Van Bogaert; Jana Peeters; Ugur Kilic; Stefan Sunaert; Wim Vandenberghe; Myles Mc Laughlin; Philippe De Vloo; Bart Nuttin Deep brain stimulation is an established treatment option for both essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), although typically targeting...

...Joshua D. Bernstock; Erickson F. Torio; Ashley L.B. Raghu; Melissa Chua; Jason Andrew Chen; David Segar; Saksham Gupta; Philip Jason White; Nathan McDannold; Alexandra J. Golby; G. Rees Cosgrove We describe a 74-year-old male with intractable essential tremor (ET) and hyperostosis calvariae diffusa...

...Erik Österlund; Patric Blomstedt; Anders Fytagoridis Background: Essential tremor (ET) is the most common adult movement disorder. For the relatively large group of patients who do not respond adequately to pharmacological therapy, deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a well-established treatment option...

...Sravani Kondapavulur; Alexander B. Silva; Doris D. Wang Background: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the ventral intermediate nucleus (Vim) of the thalamus or the posterior subthalamic area (PSA) are effective treatments for essential tremor (ET). However, their relative efficacy is unknown...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2021 Deep brain stimulation Essential tremor Functional neurosurgery...

...Daniel Alberto Roque; Eldad Hadar; Ying Zhang; Fei Zou; Richard Murrow Objective: The aim of the study was to retrospectively evaluate the effect of directional deep brain stimulation (DBS) on ataxia in an essential tremor patient population. Materials and Methods: A retrospective chart review...

...Kenji Fukutome; Hidehiro Hirabayashi; Yosuke Osakada; Yoshihiro Kuga; Hideyuki Ohnishi Introduction: Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder in adults. Bilateral symptoms are typical; however, bilateral thalamotomy for essential tremor is associated with a high probability of adverse...

...Thomas Wirth; Viswas Dayal; Alexis de Roquemaurel; Francisca Ferreira; Nirosen Vijiaratnam; Harith Akram; Ludvic Zrinzo; Thomas Foltynie; Patricia Limousin The benefit of short pulse width stimulation in patients suffering from essential tremor (ET) refractory to thalamic deep brain stimulation...

...Gregory Davis; Zachary Levine There exist only two case reports to date of open cardiac defibrillation with deep brain stimulator system (DBS) implantation. We report a 64-year-old male with DBS system in place for essential tremor who underwent cardiac defibrillation after cardiac arrest...