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Dystonic Tremor

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Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies in Tremor Disorders

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We review here the development and usage of the expression “dystonic tremor” and put it into perspective with controversies in the clinical setting. The term was introduced by Fahn to indicate patients who had dystonia with a tremulous phenomenology and underline a difference from essential tremor. Terminology usage and clinical challenges have since then kept these two expressions in close alternative, up to the recent definition of the “essential tremor plus” syndrome, to highlight cases where the clinical features are so intermixed as to raise significant uncertainty. As diagnostic criteria for dystonia and tremor get more refined, usage of the expression dystonic tremor will become less necessary.

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Abbreviations

DT:

Dystonic tremor

ET:

Essential tremor

PD:

Parkinson disease

TAWD:

Tremor associated with dystonia

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  1. Department of Neurology, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

    Stefania Lalli & Alberto Albanese

  2. Department of Neuroscience, Catholic University, Milan, Italy

    Alberto Albanese

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Lalli, S., Albanese, A. (2023). Dystonic Tremor. In: Grimaldi, G., Manto, M. (eds) Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies in Tremor Disorders. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26128-2_10

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