A New Wrist-Worn Tool Supporting the Diagnosis of Parkinsonian Motor Syndromes.

ABSTRACT: To date, clinical expert opinion is the gold standard diagnostic technique for Parkinson's disease (PD), and continuous monitoring is a promising candidate marker. This study assesses the feasibility and performance of a new wearable tool for supporting the diagnosis of Parkinsonian motor syndromes. The proposed method is based on the use of a wrist-worn measuring system, the execution of a passive, continuous recording session, and a computation of two digital biomarkers (i.e., motor activity and rest tremor index). Based on the execution of some motor tests, a second step is provided for the confirmation of the results of passive recording. In this study, fifty-nine early PD patients and forty-one healthy controls were recruited. The results of this study show that: (a) motor activity wa

SUBMITTER: Battista L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10975887 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature