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Essential Tremor Symptoms

What Are the Symptoms of Essential Tremor?

The symptoms of essential tremor may be socially embarrassing and may cause difficulty in performing fine motor tasks such as handwriting, eating, drinking and buttoning clothes.

Essential tremor may develop anytime from childhood to late adulthood, but the usual age of onset is 45 or after. It may occur randomly or be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. In inherited cases, children of affected individuals have a 50 percent risk of inheriting a gene for essential tremor and eventually developing the disease.

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Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are research studies that evaluate a new medical approach, device, drug, or other treatment. As a Stanford Health Care patient, you may have access to the latest, advanced clinical trials.

Open trials refer to studies currently accepting participants. Closed trials are not currently enrolling, but may open in the future.

Closed Trials

Clinics for Symptoms