Essential Tremor: The Role of Biobehavioral Conditioning

Lundervold, Duane A.
Poppen, Roger

¹Central Missouri State University
²Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Please address correspondence to Duane A. Lundervold, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Counselor Education, Lovinger 1016, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO 64093.

The Behavior Analyst Today 1(3):p 21-26, October 2000.

Abstract

Essential Tremor [ET], the most common neurological movement disorder, has been described as a purely medical condition, with little consideration of how principles of behavior may come to exert joint control over tremor, related negative emotional arousal, and verbal behavior. A biobehavioral conditioning model is described that has been useful in accounting for these behaviors and in developing biobehavioral interventions.