Sujata Pradhan

TL;DR: The development and preliminary evaluation of a knowledge translation (KT) resource to support clinical decision making about selection and use of Kinect games in physical therapy and the process and results of an exploratory usability evaluation of the KWiC resource by clinicians through interviews and focus groups at 4 clinical sites are described.

TL;DR: The results of this project will serve as a preliminary work for the development of a clinical biomarker for PD that may help to identify subtle deficits in fine motor control early in the disease process and facilitate tracking of disease progression with time.

TL;DR: People with mild PD demonstrated reduced quantity and intensity of PA compared to HOA, and both the PD and the HOA groups had good adherence wearing a commercial activity monitor that provided feedback regarding activity levels.

TL;DR: F0 variability changes over the course of reading a paragraph may not be indicative of PD but rather dependent on non-disease factors such as the linguistic characteristics of the text.

TL;DR: This work has used commercially available sensors to create a protocol called Advanced Sensing for Assessment of Parkinson's disease (ASAP) to obtain a quantitative and reliable measure of motor impairment in early to moderate PD and demonstrates that the ASAP protocol can measure differences for individuals who are clinically different.