Essential Tremor

• A comprehensive guide to understanding essential tremor
• Written by a geneticist with 50 years of experience of living with essential tremor and a leading movement disorders specialist
• Outlines the causes, treatments and methods of coping with day-to-day situations
• Large resource section with further contacts and support groups

Readership: Aimed at individuals affected by essential tremor, along with their families and carers. It may also be of interest to general practitioners and nurses.

Mark Plumb, Senior Lecturer, Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, UK, and Peter Bain, Reader and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Imperial College London, UK

"The authors give a comprehensive overview of ET in a clear and understandable way. The book is well written and focuses on all relevant aspects of etiology, diagnosis and therapy of ET and therefore may be beneficial both for patients and caregivers. Non-specialist physicians and beginners in neurology will find it helpful as well." - European Neurology

1: What is Essential Tremor?
2: Living and coping with Essential Tremor
3: The diagnosis of Essential Tremor
4: The treatment of Essential Tremor
5: Who gets Essential Tremor?
6: Possible causes of Essential Tremor
7: The future - prospects of a cure