Victor Sung

Tremor I. Problem/Condition. Tremor is a type of Movement Disorder (see that Chapter for where tremor fits in overall Movement Disorder phenomenology) characterized by rhythmic involuntary oscillatory movement of part of the body, typically involving an extremity or the head. Tremor is one of the most common disorders seen in the hospital setting for a…

I. What every physician needs to know. Partial seizures can also be known as focal seizures because by definition they start at a seizure focus, or at a certain part of the cerebral cortex that is irritated/injured. Partial seizures can generalize (generalized tonic-clonic seizure), and when they do, the actual generalized convulsion is indistinguishable from…