Improvement of Primary Writing Tremor in Parkinson's Disease with Carbidopa/Levodopa.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Primary writing tremor is a task-specific phenomenon that has been described as variants of essential tremor or dystonia.

PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN:

We describe the case of a 63-year-old female who initially had primary writing tremor, later developed Parkinson's disease, and once initiated on carbidopa/levodopa had improvement in her parkinsonism and her writing tremor.

EDUCATIONAL VALUE:

As neither essential tremor nor typical brachial dystonia respond to carbidopa/levodopa, our case documents that at least some cases of primary writing tremor are not variants of either dystonia or essential tremor.

• Authors: James P Battista, Paul E Greene
• Journal: Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) (Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y)) Vol. 5 Pg. 345 ( 2015) ISSN: 2160-8288 [Print] England
• PMID: 26566458 (Publication Type: Journal Article)