"Ethanol is known to have a significant influence on human bodies, especially on the nervous system (1). Despite those negative effects as described in various studies, patients with certain diseases benefited from the consumption of ethanol. The clinical manifestation of ethanol-responsive movement disorders (ERMDs) could be significantly improved after ethanol intake. Patients with essential tremor (ET), one of the most common movement disorders influencing ~1% of the population worldwide (2), were first reported to respond to ethanol in 1949 by Critchley (3). Similarly, alcohol intake has long been known to decrease myoclonic symptoms in most myoclonus dystonia (MD) patients since 1967 (4). Besides, cases of different phenotypes of dystonia (5–7), dyssynergia cerebellaris myoclonica (8–11), epilepsia partialis continua (12), post-hypoxic myoclonus (13), and tremor with multiple sclerosis (14) are also reported to have similar positive responses to ethanol"
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