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Tremor 2 Dec 1998 Movement Disorders 1998;Vol. 13:Supplement 3:125 pages: All you ever wanted to know about tremor is reviewed in the papers presented at this workshop session of the 5th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, sponsored by the Movement Disorder Society at New York, N.Y., 10-14 Oct 1998. You can get abstracts from PubMed; here are the titles relevant to PD or ET: -Consensus Statement of the Movement Disorder Society on Tremor [Proposes formal classification based on the distinctions between rest, postural, simple kinetic, and intention tremor]. -Physiology and anatomy of possible oscillators in the central nervous system. -Physiology of MPTP tremor. -Animal models of action tremor. -The role of the thalamus and basal ganglia in parkinsonian tremor. -Overview of human tremor physiology. -Pathology of symptomatic tremors. -Epidemiology and genetics of essential tremor. -Oscillations of the human sensorimotor system as revealed by magnetoencephalography. -Clinical measurement of tremor. -Long-term measurement of tremor. -Spiral analysis: a new technique for measuring tremor with a digitizing tablet. -Pharmacologic treatment of tremor. -Neural transplantation in Parkinson's disease and its effects on rest tremor: a review of the literature. -Thalamic surgery and tremor. -Pallidotomy for tremor. -The subthalamic nucleus and tremor in Parkinson's disease. -Long-term electrical inhibition of deep brain targets in movement disorders. Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013