Last reviewed: 30 Sep 2024
Last updated: 09 Nov 2022
Summary
Differentials
Common
- Parkinson disease (PD)
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Enhanced physiologic tremor
- Hypoglycemia (enhanced physiologic tremor)
- Thyrotoxicosis (enhanced physiologic tremor)
- Alcohol withdrawal (enhanced physiologic tremor)
- Essential tremor or essential tremor plus
- Drug-induced tremor
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Uncommon
- Multiple system atrophy
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Cortical basal degeneration
- Toxin-induced tremor
- Postencephalitic parkinsonism
- Pheochromocytoma (enhanced physiologic tremor)
- Cerebellar tremor (multiple sclerosis, trauma, or stroke)
- Fragile X tremor ataxia syndrome
- Orthostatic tremor
- Primary writing tremor
- Dystonic tremor
- Wilson disease
- Rubral tremor
- Functional (psychogenic) tremor
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Contributors
Authors
Kelvin L. Chou, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
MI
Disclosures
KLC serves on the medical advisory board (unpaid position) for the International Essential Tremor Foundation.
Praveen Dayalu, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
MI
Disclosures
PD declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Aparna Wagle Shukla, null
Professor
Movement Disorders Division
Department of Neurology
University of Florida
Gainesville
FL
Disclosures
WS has been reimbursed by Merz, ES therapeutics, Sage, Jazz, and Acadia.
Paul Greene, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven
CT
Disclosures
PG declares that he has no competing interests.
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