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Home Use Smartphone App for Parkinson Disease

New technology may help patients and providers assess changes in severity of Parkinson disease symptoms more objectively.

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Researchers have used machine learning to develop a smartphone app that can rate severity of symptoms at home. Results were published online in JAMA Neurology. The study is one of the largest to evaluate how smartphones can be used to assess changes in Parkinson disease (PD) symptoms over time. “The mPDS [mobile PD disease scores] is a novel measure that provides rapid, remote, frequent, and objective assessment of PD symptom severity on widely available smartphones,” wrote first author Andong Zhan, MS, of John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Source: Zhan A, Mohan S, Tarolli C, et al. Using smartphones and machine learning to quantify Parkinson disease severity: the mobile Parkinson disease score. JAMA Neurol. March 2018; Epub ahead of print.

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