Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector

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However, hand tremors can also point to other conditions, such as multiple sclerosis (MS) or dystonia. Frequency is generally classified as low (less than 4 Hz), medium (4 to 7 Hz), or high (more than 7 Hz). The diagnosis of tremor is based on clinical information obtained from the history and physical examination.

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Does your tremor get worse when you try to point at something specific - the closer you get, the wider your aim is from your goal? Caffeine intake and fatigue are often exacerbating factors in essential tremor with few alleviating factors. The book captures the wonder of scientific breakthrough – and what happens as the story becomes more complex. If a person has close family members with the condition, their risk of developing it can be greater. This means that it is generally not controllable and happens without you deciding to move that body part.This often develops when the disease damages areas in the pathways of the central nervous system that control movement. It is generally bilateral, is present with different tasks, and interferes with activities of daily living. Beta-blockers stop some of the effects of the thyroid hormone and can reduce symptoms such as a rapid pulse and tremors.

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For their part, Police Chief Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler, who went on to graduate from the University of California, strongly touted the polygraph. Focused ultrasound thalamotomy creates a sore that can result in permanent changes to brain function.

Surgical procedures may be performed when tremor does not respond to medications or severely impacts daily life. The other main symptoms of Parkinson's disease - slowness of movement and stiffness - may start at about the same time as the tremor, but may be put down to getting older or to general unfitness. It’s all here: the man rushing into a police station covered in his wife’s blood, a corpse clutching a bottle marked “poison”, the unorthodox police chief, the brilliant outsider. Maybe they are considered too boring and mundane, a metal box replacing the human interaction of interviewer and suspect.

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Katwala does have a journalist’s eye for an interesting story, and some of the individual cases talked about here are engrossing, but the book as a whole didn’t fit together for me as well as I’d have liked.When you have this condition, your hand shakes because brain cells that tell your muscles to move get damaged. Surgical interventions that may help to manage body tremors include deep brain stimulation (DBS) and thalamotomy. This device transmits painless electrical pulses to interrupt signals from the thalamus that may be causing the tremors.