Essential Tremor PSA Alice Cooper (33 seconds)
Do you know someone with Essential Tremor?
Yes! Essential tremor is so common yet non-transparent. Outside of individuals and families afflicted with essential tremor, the public at large is not familiar with the movement disorder or, misjudges the symptom of tremor as being Parkinsons.
You probably know a neighbor, a co-worker, a service club or faith member, who has essential tremor. If not, you know of the following famous people and otter with essential tremor.
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| John Adams
John Quincy Adams Samuel Adams Magnus Berg Robert C. Byrd Oliver Cromwell John Diefenbaker |
Goldie
Katharine Hepburn King Louis XV General Douglas MacArthur Joseph McCarthy Sandra Day OConnor Eugene ONeill |
Ozzy Ozbourne
Tim Simpson Bill Werbeniuk |
Illnesses of John Quincy Adams
In the biography John Quincy Adams by Lynn H. Parsons, it is noted that John Quincy Adams developed a slight tremor in his right hand, sometimes requiring a brace to steady it while he wrote.
Further information on John Quincy Adams and his father John Adams tremors can be found in two books, John Adams by Paul C. Nagel, and Arguing about Slavery, by William Lee Miller.
Neuroscience for Kids provides trivia on John Adams, 2nd President of the US, and John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the US. were born in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Samuel Adams Tremor
Medical history draws upon handwriting analysis and historical accounts to reveal that John Quincy Adams and Samuel Adams were afflicted with essential tremor. In the article Samuel Adams Tremor, Dr. Elan Louis, TANs medical advisor and contributor, cites the American Revolutionist as having a tremor that affected his hands, head and voice.
Magnus Berg The Sculptor
Handwriting analysis and examinations of various sculptures account for the recognition that the sculptor Magnus Berg had essential tremor.
Diefenbaker Disease
Dr. Ali Rajputs extensive research of medical records and Diefenbaker Archives concludes that the 13th Prime Minister of Canada suffered from essential tremor and not Parkinsons Disease. Dr. Rajput renamed essential tremor Diefenbaker Disease, in honor of the Prime Minister.
Late-Life Action Tremor in Goldie
Goldie the Southern Sea Otter was orphaned off the California coast at the age of 5 weeks. The Monterey Bay Aquarium rescued her, and Goldie lived at the Aquarium until the age of 18.
Five years prior, Goldie developed a head tremor, similar to essential tremor patients. Dr. Michael Murray, Goldies veterinarian, recorded invaluable information on Goldies tremor, which peaked the interest of TANs medical contributor, Elan Louis.
TANs Director, Dr. Hokuto Morita, has detailed Dr. Louis collaborative study of Goldies brain in his article, Animal Tremor: Of Mice and Men and Marine Life, featured in the first issue of The TremorAction.org and Care4Dystonia.org newsletter, Spikes & Spasms.
General Douglas MacArthur
TANs Director of Education, Andrea Gardner, RN, with permission from Lauren Bowen, MD, and Michael Okun, MD, presented the full text of Did General Douglas MacArthur have Parkinson disease? to former Congressman Patrick Kennedy at the 2011 One Mind for Research Smposium in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Okun and Dr. Bowen of the UF Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration, received the 2011 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Lawrence C. McHenry Award for their research in the history of neurology.
Eugene ONeil
Most likely Eugene ONeill suffered from essential tremor. The symptoms noted by Dr. Chudler are more consistent with ET.
Katharine Hepburn was an Honorary Board Member of the Eugene ONeil Foundation. In 1992 Ms. Hepburn wrote a letter to Gumps,, the San Francisco home furnishings store, requesting that the Chinese opium couch used by Mr. ONeil as a bed be returned to his Northern California residence, Tao House.