Published on Feb 10, 2021
Medicine
38. Tremors
- Resting (static) tremor: In Parkinson’s disease (pill rolling tremor)
- Intentional tremor: In cerebellar lesion
- Postural tremor: In thyrotoxicosis, essential familial tremor
- Flapping tremor/asterixis: In hepatic encephalopathy, renal failure, resp. failure, metabolic encephalopathy
- Perioral tremor: General paresis of insane
- Holmes tremor: Midbrain or rubral tremor; caused by lesion close to red nucleus.