Unawareness of head tremor in essential tremor : a study of three samples of essential tremor patients

摘要

Patients with Huntington disease may be unaware of their chorea, and patients with Parkinson disease often do not recognize or endorse their medication-induced dyskinesias.1, 2 Head tremor occurs in essential tremor (ET),3, 4 yet patients in our experience are often unaware of it. While this phenomenon is anecdotally noted, it has not been formally documented or studied systematically.