A Robot Has Just Passed a Classic Self-Awareness Test for the First Time. It thinks, therefore it is. A researcher at Ransselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US has given three Nao robots an updated version of the classic 'wise men puzzle' self-awareness test... and one of them has managed to pass.
Medications used to treat essential tremors include: 1  Beta blockers. 2  Anti-seizure medications. 3  Tranquilizers. Calcium-channel blockers.  Botox injections.
Catechol-O -methyl transferase (COMT) inhibitors inhibitors such as entacapone and tolcapone may be used to increase the peripheral half-life of levodopa, thereby delivering more levodopa to the brain over a longer time. Anticholinergic medications can be used for the treatment of resting tremor. However, they are not particularly effective for bradykinesia, rigidity, gait disturbance, or other features of advanced Parkinson disease; and cognitive side effects are common.