Along with medications, behavioral treatments like relaxation therapy, massage, biofeedback or the trick of keeping your mind active with challenging games or work will help. Avoiding alcohol can also help. Recent work of Drs. Richard Allen at Johns Hopkins, Arthur Walters and Wayne Henning at the JFK Memorial Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey, has tried to establish the cause of this disorder. They have shown that the sensations may be linked to an imbalance in the brain of ferritin, a form of iron carried in the blood.
Genetic studies are also underway.