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Essential Tremor

"Essential Tremor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A relatively common disorder characterized by a fairly specific pattern of tremors which are most prominent in the upper extremities and neck, inducing titubations of the head. The tremor is usually mild, but when severe may be disabling. An autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance may occur in some families (i.e., familial tremor). (Mov Disord 1988;13(1):5-10)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Essential Tremor" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Essential Tremor" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 94 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2019 and 2020
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