'When did my tremor start?': Can essential tremor patients pinpoint their disease onset?

摘要

Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common neurological disorders among adults, and it is the most common tremor disorder [1-8]. As in other neurodegenerative diseases, age of onset in ET is chiefly assessed by the patients' (or occasionally their care-givers') self-report, which may be of little documentary value. Surprisingly, there have been few data that have examined the accuracy of patients' reports of age of onset of ET.