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Efficiency of mobile sensor measurements in Parkinson's disease

Description

The main symptoms of idiopathic Parkinson's syndrome (iPS) are movement disorders. Recently, mobile sensors have become increasingly effective at detecting these as they become smaller, more accurate and less expensive. Such sensors can now be found in every smartphone and smartwatch. The use of such sensors to measure disease symptoms makes sense because such measurements are, in the best case, continuous and can be taken outside of a clinic or doctor's visit, thus providing valuable information about the course of the disease. But how many sensors are needed and where are they best placed?

Through the retrospective analysis of publicly available data from a study that has already been carried out with mobile motion sensors in Parkinson's patients, symptom monitoring in patients in this diagnostic group is to be optimized. In the future, the symptoms should be measured as closely as possible, non-invasively and from home, without affecting patients in their daily lives. The aim of the present study is to find out what type of sensor technology can be used to do this efficiently.

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Dr. rer nat. Urs Kleinholdermann
Mrs. Theresa Kamp
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