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Developing a Tool for Remote Digital Assessment of Parkinson's Disease

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The first report on the development and testing of stand‐alone software for mobile devices that could be used to assess both tremor and bradykinesia of PD patients is provided.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The natural fluctuation of motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) makes judgement of any change challenging and the use of clinical scales such as the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS)-UPDRS imperative. Recently developed commodity mobile communication devices, such as smartphones, could possibly be used to assess motor symptoms in PD patients in a convenient way with low cost. We provide the first report on the development and testing of stand-alone software for mobile devices that could be used to assess both tremor and bradykinesia of PD patients. METHODS: We assessed motor symptoms with a custom-made smartphone application in 14 patients and compared the results with their MDS-UPDRS scores. RESULTS: We found significant correlation between five subscores of MDS-UPDRS (rest tremor, postural tremor, pronation-supination, leg agility, and finger tapping) and eight parameters of the data collected with the smartphone. CONCLUSIONS: These results provide evidence as a proof of principle that smartphones could be a useful tool to objectively assess motor symptoms in PD in clinical and experimental settings.

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TL;DR: The pathological findings in 100 patients diagnosed prospectively by a group of consultant neurologists as having idiopathic Parkinson's disease are reported, and these observations call into question current concepts of Parkinson's Disease as a single distinct morbid entity.
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Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): scale presentation and clinimetric testing results.

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TL;DR: The combined clinimetric results of this study support the validity of the MDS‐UPDRS for rating PD.
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What features improve the accuracy of clinical diagnosis in Parkinson's disease A clinicopathologic study

TL;DR: Assessment of clinical features of 100 patients diagnosed prospectively by a group of consultant neurologists as having idiopathic Parkinson's disease suggests that studies based on consultant diagnosis of PD, using standard diagnostic criteria, will include cases other than PD, thus distorting results from clinical trials and epidemiologic studies.
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Implementation of an iPhone for characterizing Parkinson's disease tremor through a wireless accelerometer application

TL;DR: The initial testing and evaluation of the iPhone wireless accelerometer application for quantifying Parkinson's disease tremor successfully demonstrates the capacity to acquire tremor characteristics in an effectively autonomous environment, while potentially alleviating strain on limited and highly specialized medical resources.
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Epidemiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis in Parkinson's disease tremor

TL;DR: The epidemiology of tremor in Parkinson's disease is not well examined, and patients with a predominant tremor phenotype may have a more favourable prognosis in terms of mortality and the development of motor and non-motor complications.
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