NEURO CONSULT — r20260922s-2SERIES: FAMILY DINNERTHE LOCALIZER
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Friend: "Stop staring at my mother." Me: "Her head is nodding." Friend: "She agrees with you." Me: "She has been agreeing for six minutes." Me: "Through a disagreement." What does your family ask you instead? Send this to whoever cannot stop examining other people's families.

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Essential tremor commonly involves the head and neck as a postural 'yes-yes' (vertical) or 'no-no' (horizontal) oscillation that is present with maintained posture and absent during sleep; parkinsonian tremor is characteristically a rest tremor of the hand that diminishes with voluntary movement.

Established movement-disorders phenomenology (Consensus Statement on the classification of tremors, Movement Disorder Society; Bhatia et al. 2018). Head tremor with postural activation is a recognized essential-tremor phenotype; rest tremor with action suppression is characteristic of parkinsonism.
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