scholarly journals Invasive and Non-Invasive Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease

Author(s):  
Caspar Stephani



2020 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. e61
Author(s):  
B. Mondal ◽  
S. Choudhury ◽  
R. Banerjee ◽  
A. Roy ◽  
K. Chatterjee ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. e9
Author(s):  
L. Brabenec ◽  
J. Mekyska ◽  
Z. Galáž ◽  
P. Klobušiakova ◽  
M. Koštálová ◽  
...  




2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Grillini ◽  
Remco J. Renken ◽  
Anne C. L. Vrijling ◽  
Joost Heutink ◽  
Frans W. Cornelissen

AbstractEvaluating the state of the oculomotor system of a patient is one of the fundamental tests done in neuro-ophthalmology. However, up to date, very few quantitative standardized tests of eye movements quality exist, limiting this assessment to confrontational tests reliant on subjective interpretation. Furthermore, quantitative tests relying on eye movement properties such as pursuit gain and saccade dynamics are often insufficient to capture the complexity of the underlying disorders and are often (too) long and tiring. In this study, we present SONDA (Standardised Oculomotor and Neurological Disorder Assessment): this test is based on analyzing eye tracking recorded during a short and intuitive continuous tracking task. We tested patients affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and find that: (1) the saccadic dynamics of the main sequence alone are not sufficient to separate patients from healthy controls; (2) the combination of spatio-temporal and statistical properties of saccades and saccadic dynamics enables an identification of oculomotor abnormalities in both MS and PD patients. We conclude that SONDA constitutes a powerful screening tool that allows an in-depth evaluation of (deviant) oculomotor behavior in a few minutes of non-invasive testing.



2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun T Nair ◽  
Vadivelan Ramachandran ◽  
Nanjan M Joghee ◽  
Shanish Antony ◽  
Gopalakrishnan Ramalingam


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denchai Worasawate ◽  
Warisara Asawaponwiput ◽  
Natsue Yoshimura ◽  
Apichart Intarapanich ◽  
Decho Surangsrirat

BACKGROUND Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. The current diagnosis is dependent on clinical observation and the abilities and experience of a trained specialist. One of the symptoms that affect most patients over the course of their illness is voice impairment. OBJECTIVE Voice is one of the non-invasive data that can be collected remotely for diagnosis and disease progression monitoring. In this study, we analyzed voice recording data from a smartphone as a possible disease biomarker. The dataset is from one of the largest mobile PD studies, the mPower study. METHODS A total of 29,798 audio clips from 4,051 participants were used for the analysis. The voice recordings were from sustained phonation by the participant saying /aa/ for ten seconds into the iPhone microphone. The audio samples were converted to a spectrogram using a short-time Fourier transform. CNN models were then applied to classify the samples. RESULTS A total of 29,798 audio clips from 4,051 participants were used for the analysis. The voice recordings were from sustained phonation by the participant saying /aa/ for ten seconds into the iPhone microphone. The audio samples were converted to a spectrogram using a short-time Fourier transform. CNN models were then applied to classify the samples. CONCLUSIONS Classification accuracies of the proposed method with LeNet-5, ResNet-50, and VGGNet-16 are 97.7 ± 0.1%, 98.6 ± 0.2%, and 99.3 ± 0.1%, respectively. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02696603; https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02696603



Author(s):  
Chandrasekar Ravi

This chapter aims to use the speech signals that are a behavioral bio-marker for Parkinson's disease. The victim's vocabulary is mostly lost, or big gaps are observed when they are talking or the conversation is abruptly stopped. Therefore, speech analysis could help to identify the complications in conversation from the inception of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease in initial phases itself. Speech can be regularly logged in an unobstructed approach and machine learning techniques can be applied and analyzed. Fuzzy logic-based classifier is proposed for learning from the training speech signals and classifying the test speech signals. Brainstorm optimization algorithm is proposed for extracting the fuzzy rules from the speech data, which is used by fuzzy classifier for learning and classification. The performance of the proposed classifier is evaluated using metrics like accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity, and compared with benchmark classifiers like SVM, naïve Bayes, k-means, and decision tree. It is observed that the proposed classifier outperforms the benchmark classifiers.



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