The digital signature of emergent tremor in Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT: Emergent tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD) can occur during sustained postures or movements that are different from action tremor. Tremor can contaminate the clinical rating of bradykinesia during finger tapping. Currently, there is no reliable way of isolating emergent tremor and measuring the cardinal motor symptoms based on voluntary movements only. In this study, we investigated whether emergent tremor during repetitive alternating finger tapping (RAFT) on a quantitative digitography (QDG) device could be reliably identified and distinguished from voluntary tapping. Ninety-six individuals with PD and forty-two healthy controls performed a thirty-second QDG-RAFT task and the Movement Disorders Society - Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part III (MDS-UPDRS III). Visual identific

SUBMITTER: Gala AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11306561 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature