Diagnosing essential tremor after death helps families learn risk

Changes in the brains of patients with essential tremor are centered on a group of neurons in the cerebellum known as Purkinje cells, the round and oval green objects in this image. Credit: Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (2024). DOI: 10.1002/acn3.52068 A statistical tool designed to analyze 11 characteristics of postmortem brains reliably diagnosed a common neurodegenerative disease known as essential tremor (ET), a study led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Columbia University shows. Their findings, 20 years in the making and published in the Annals Read More

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