Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies in Tremor Disorders

Part 1: Fundamental aspects.- Definition of tremor.- Membrane mechanisms of tremor.- Rodent models of tremor.- Advances in genetics of human tremor.- Musculo-skeletal models of tremor.- Part 2: The various forms of tremor in clinical practice: presentation and mechanism.- Physiological tremor.- Rest tremor.- Postural tremors.- Isometric tremor.- Essential Tremor and Other Forms of Kinetic Tremor.- Dystonic tremor.- Orthostatic tremor.- Vocal tremor.- Update in Familial Cortical Myoclonic tremor with Epilepsy (FCMTE) .- Post-traumatic tremor and Other Post-Traumatic Movement Disorders.- Psychogenic tremor.- Tremor in childhood.- Part 3: Assessment of tremor: clinical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging aspects.- Assessment of tremor: clinical and functional scales.- Instrumentation: classical and emerging techniques.- Signal processing.- Diffusion imaging in tremor.- The metabolic networks in Parkinson's disease.- Part 4: Therapies of tremor.- Pharmacological treatments of tremor.- Thalamotomy.- Brain Stimulation.- Dopaminergic Influences on Rest and Action Tremors and Emerging Therapies for Tremor.