Cognitive deficits in patients with essential tremor

Essential tremor is associated with dementia

“…20 A variety of non-motor features, including cognitive and psychiatric, are now appreciated and undergoing further scientific scrutiny in case-control studies. While mild problems in cognition in excess of aging have been reported in many case-control studies, [6][7][8] there have been few attempts to examine whether these cognitive problems are more considerable.…”

“…[3][4][5] In a growing number of studies, mild cognitive problems are being observed in ET cases. [6][7][8] Furthermore, an association between ET and dementia was reported in a recent population-based study in central Spain. 9,10 This novel association has yet to be verified in other populations.…”

Alteraciones neuropsiquiátricas en el temblor esencial

“…En 1999 se publica la primera serie, donde se comparan los resultados neuropsicoló gicos obtenidos de 40 pacientes antes y tres meses despué s de la estimulació n palidal 15 . Desde entonces numerosas series clínicas han estudiado la asociació n entre temblor esencial y rendimiento cognitivo [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] en la bibliografía, precisando los tests y escalas empleados [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] . El aná lisis de estos estudios muestra que existe de manera consistente una alteració n en distintas á reas cognitivas, como son la atenció n (verbal, auditiva y visual), funciones ejecutivas, alteraciones del lenguaje (fluencia verbal) y de la memoria (memoria de trabajo, memoria inmediata diferida y visuoespacial Àen ciertos estudiosÀ), en esencia, de las funciones ejecutivas.…”

Assessment of Cognitive Functioning after Pallidotomy in Patients with Primary Dystonia

“…To date, there are only a few published studies carried out on a number of small groups of patients, which could not be subjected to thorough statistical analysis [12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. …”