essential tremor

Today I'm joined by Lon Lewis, Professor and Chair of Neurology at UT Southwestern.

We're going to be discussing his recent paper published in Neurology titled, Estimates of Incidence and Prevalence of Conversions to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Patients with Essential Tremor.

Alon, welcome to the podcast.

I'm excited to be talking about your paper.

Thanks so much, Matt, and it's great to be here.

Essential tremor is generally thought of as a movement disorder.

That's why we're together speaking today.

But it's increasingly recognized that cognitive impairment can be an important part of the disease.

So talk to me, um, Kate, before we talk about the product itself.

A lot of people maybe haven't heard of essential tremor.

They hear about Parkinson's.

I myself, I was like, "Well, is essential tremor just a form of Parkinson's?" And it, it used to be called benign essential tremor, and I think there's different categories of essential tremor as well, but can you tell us a little bit about it?

Yes.

So essential tremor tends to have a single symptom, so it is tremor.

Um, and most often it is in the hands.

However-

Tommy got that right.

It's, uh, Essential Tremor.

So that was a British C before.

Yeah.