Automated Assessment of Movement Impairment in Huntington’s Disease

Automated Assessment of Upper Extremity Movement Impairment due to Stroke

Current diagnosis and treatment of movement impairment post-stroke is based on the subjective assessment of select movements by a trained clinical specialist. However, modern low-cost motion capture technology allows for the development of automated quantitative assessment of motor impairment. Such outcome measures are crucial for advancing post-stroke treatment methods. We sought to develop an...

Applying Bioinfomatics Strategies in Huntingtons Disease Research

Impairment of rapid movement in Huntington's disease.

Patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and relatives at risk were examined with respect to their capacity to produce rapid voluntary motor activity. For this purpose, the fastest possible self-paced single isometric forefinger extensions and the fastest alternating forefinger movements were tested. In addition to these fastest voluntary performances, the time course of spontaneous hyperkinetic...

Retrospective assessment of movement disorder society criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease.

A Movement Disorder Society (MDS) taskforce recently proposed diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease with features of mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI). This study first examined the prevalence and nature of PD-MCI in a non-demented cohort using the MDS criteria. Using the generic Monte Carlo simulation method developed by Crawford and colleagues (2007), this study then estimated the base...

MRI Tz Hypointensities in basal ganglia of premanifest Huntingtons disease