Research Directions
Current research has focused on finding a pharmacological treatment that is specific for intention tremor. Currently, limited success has been seen in treating intention tremor with drugs effective at treating essential tremor. Clinical trials of levetiracetam, typically used to treat epilepsy, and pramipexole, used to treat resting tremor, have recently been completed to establish their effectiveness in treating kinetic tremor. A clinical trial for riluzole, typically used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is currently underway at the Sapienza University of Rome to evaluate its effectiveness of treating cerebellar ataxia and kinetic tremor.
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