BACKGROUND We compared uptake of hospital and community-based support in elderly people disabled by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), normal controls (NCs) and patients with Parkinsons disease, stroke, amputation, or arthritis (disabled controls; DCs). METHODS There were 65 subjects (35 men) aged 70-93 years (mean 78) with COPD, 55 NCs [23 men; age range 71-90 years (mean 78)] and...

Parkinsons disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s, affecting about 1% of the people older than 65 and about 89% of the people with PD develop different speech disorders. Different researchers are currently working in the analysis of speech of people with PD, including the study of different dimensions in speech such as phonation, articulation, pro...

INTRODUCTION Neuroimaging studies of elderly individuals reveal alterations in the white matter that are incompatible with the patients parkinsonism, mistakenly classified as vascular parkinsonism (VP). METHOD This study was conducted on a population composed of 20 patients with Parkinsons disease (PD) whose neuroimaging exams revealed vascular alterations in the white matter and seven patien...

Human motion analysis and assessment are important in determining Parkinsons disease and stroke, or in measuring skill quality in basic motions. Reduced space is useful in representing motion segments and finding basic behavioral patterns for humanoid robot control using the modularized approach. In the current paper, we represent motion-captured data of human action in a reduced space of nonli...

Electrochemical analysis of nucleic acids, proteins and polysaccharides represents an interesting, although not widely spread alternative to current methods based predominantly on optical detection because it offers a relatively inexpensive, fast and instrumentally simple detection of parallel samples on miniaturized chips, ideal for personalized medicine of the 21st century. Nucleic acid elect...

The paper details the construction of a clinical decision support system which is the integral part of the ParkinsonCheck application. ParkinsonCheck is an app for smart phones built to detect signs of Parkinsons disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET), which is the main differential diagnosis from PD in the early stage of the disease. The application is based on spirography (spiral drawing) and...

Objective: The aim of this study is to develop a smartphone-based high-frequency remote monitoring platform, assess its feasibility for remote monitoring of symptoms in Parkinsons disease, and demonstrate the value of data collected using the platform by detecting dopaminergic medication response. Methods: We have developed HopkinsPD, a novel smartphonebased monitoring platform, which measures ...