Researchers think that the abnormal brain activity that causes Essential Tremor is processed through a structure deep in the brain called the thalamus. Stereotactic thalamotomy works by destroying ...

BERLIN — For patients with essential tremor (ET), unilateral focused ultrasound thalamotomy improves contralateral hand tremor, avoids use of an operating room and invasion of the skull, and requires ...

Ultrasound thalamotomy guided by MRI is effective and relatively safe when used to treat patients with essential tremor (ET), a randomized trial suggests. Initial findings of the 76-person study were ...

If you can't find a way to control Parkinson's motor fluctuations -- symptoms that return after taking medicine for years -- your doctor may suggest surgery called deep brain stimulation (DBS). It's ...

Lesioning surgery is a procedure that involves purposefully damaging select areas of the brain, to help in the management of a health condition, such as Parkinson’s disease. There are several types of ...

1.1 The evidence on the safety of unilateral MRI-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for treatment-resistant essential tremor raises no major safety concerns. However, current evidence on its ...

MONDAY, Aug. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with essential tremor, staged, bilateral magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy improves tremor/motor scores, according to a ...

Evidence-based recommendations on unilateral MRI-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for treatment-resistant essential tremor in adults. This involves applying ultrasound to a specific area on 1 ...

To the Editor: In their discussions of the results of a sham-controlled trial of focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor (Aug. 25 issue), neither the authors of the original article, El ...