On January 18, I had lunch in Rome, Italy with Alfonso Fasano, MD, PhD. He is currently at the Institute of Neurology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. He is a movement disorder specialist who worked for a time with Dr Gunther Deuschl. Dr Deuschl is currently President of the Movement Disorder Society and is one of the foremost experts on Essential Tremor.<\/p>\n
Alfonso & I discussed better ways to disseminate the results of research being done on Essential Tremor – to those who have it. He saw the benefit of doing so and enthusiastically wanted to help. He had some interesting observations. The principle one was that a number of people who have been told they have Essential Tremor, have Dystonia instead. They were misdiagnosed.<\/p>\n
Dr Fasano is moving to Toronto within the month to continue his work there. Kathleen Welker of Tremor Action Network\u00a0& I look forward to staying in touch with him while he is there.<\/p>\n
Peter Muller
\nExecutive Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"