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2. Essential tremor - Wikipedia

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   Essential tremor (ET), also called benign tremor, familial tremor, and idiopathic tremor, is a medical condition characterized by involuntary rhythmic contractions and relaxations (oscillations or twitching movements) of certain muscle groups in one or more body parts of unknown cause. [ 6 ] It is typically symmetrical, and affects the arms ...

3. Benign fasciculation syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Prognosis. Good-Excellent. Benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS) is characterized by fasciculation (twitching) of voluntary muscles in the body. [1] The twitching can occur in any voluntary muscle group but is most common in the eyelids, arms, hands, fingers, legs, and feet. The tongue can also be affected.

4. Magnesium deficiency - Wikipedia

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   Magnesium deficiency is an electrolyte disturbance in which there is a low level of magnesium in the body. [3] Symptoms include tremor, poor coordination, muscle spasms, loss of appetite, personality changes, and nystagmus. [1][2] Complications may include seizures or cardiac arrest such as from torsade de pointes. [1]

5. Hyperkinesia - Wikipedia

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   It has been demonstrated in essential tremor animal models that the food additive 1-octanol suppresses tremors induced by harmaline, and decreases the amplitude of essential tremor for about 90 minutes. [20] Two of the most valuable drug treatments for essential tremor are propranolol, a beta blocker, and primidone, an anticonvulsant ...

6. Tremor - Wikipedia

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   The tremor may be the initial sign of dystonia localized to a particular part of the body. The dystonic tremor has usually a frequency of about 7 Hz. [2] Essential tremor (sometimes inaccurately called benign essential tremor) is the most common of the more than 20 types of tremor. Although the tremor may be mild and nonprogressive in some ...

7. Parkinsonism - Wikipedia

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   Parkinsonism is a clinical syndrome characterized by tremor, bradykinesia (slowed movements), rigidity, and postural instability. [1][2] Both hypokinetic (bradykinesia and akinesia) as well as hyperkinetic (cogwheel rigidity and tremors at rest) features are displayed by Parkinsonism. [3] These are the four motor symptoms found in Parkinson's ...