Sentences with phrase «including hand tremor»

While lithium carbonate has been very effective for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder, and credited for reducing suicides in depressive phases of the disease, patients who take lithium carbonate are often noncompliant because of adverse effects, including hand tremor, diarrhea, vomiting, weight gain and decreased thyroid function.

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This San Francisco - based startup is a group of scientists and engineers working to develop new technologies for people with Essential Tremor and Parkinson's disease, a demographic that includes millions of people whose hands shake so much that just getting food into their mouths is a challenge.

Essential tremor is a neurological disorder characterized by shaking of hands (and sometimes other parts of the body including the head), evoked by intentional movements.

Though the trial did not include patients with hand tremors caused by other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, the device may be useful to such patients too, he notes.