Evidence map · DBS · essential tremor
DBS for essential tremor: what the research shows
Deep brain stimulation for essential tremor. 1,415 papers from 1993 to 2026, including 20 meta-analyses, 36 systematic reviews and 25 randomised controlled trials. Each study below links to its source.
1,415Papers in the corpus
20Meta-analyses
25Randomised controlled trials
380Open-access papers
Study design
Jev labels407 papers have no confident study-design label yet. Labels are AI-classified by Jev: advisory, not clinician-reviewed.
Papers over time
by publication year* 2025–26 is still in progress, so its count is incomplete.
Most-cited trials and reviews
by citations- 1
A comparison of continuous thalamic stimulation and thalamotomy for suppression of severe tremor.
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Deep brain stimulation for essential tremor: a systematic review.
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DBS of the PSA and the VIM in essential tremor: A randomized, double-blind, crossover trial.
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PSA and VIM DBS efficiency in essential tremor depends on distance to the dentatorubrothalamic tract.
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Current clinical application of deep-brain stimulation for essential tremor.
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Randomized, Blinded Pilot Testing of Nonconventional Stimulation Patterns and Shapes in Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor: Evidence for Further Evaluating Narrow and Biphasic Pulses.
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Less is more - Pulse width dependent therapeutic window in deep brain stimulation for essential tremor.
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Outcomes and Adverse Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on the Ventral Intermediate Nucleus in Patients with Essential Tremor.
Recent trials and reviews
last 3 years- 1
Tremor Associated With Klinefelter Syndrome: Report of a Case Treated by Deep Brain Stimulation and Systematic Review of the Literature.
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Comparative efficacy of PSA and VIM deep brain stimulation in essential tremor: a network and multilevel meta-analysis.
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Tremor in Spinocerebellar Ataxia: A Scoping Review.
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Deep brain stimulation with short versus conventional pulse width in Parkinson's disease and essential tremor: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Cognitive outcomes in patients with essential tremor treated with deep brain stimulation: a systematic review.
Decision support only. This page summarises published literature; it is not medical advice or a recommendation for any patient. Study designs and topic labels are AI-classified by Jev: advisory, not clinician-reviewed. Abstracts are not reproduced here: follow the links to read each source. Data snapshot 2026-09-25.