Researchers at Apple, working with specialists who treat Parkinson’s, designed a system that uses the Apple Watch to detect the motor symptoms that are a hallmark of the neurological disease. By monitoring resting tremors and other involuntary movements, the researchers were able to identify the characteristic “on” and “off” patterns of medication’s effects. Their findings were published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine.
The algorithms underlying the model were developed using data from a pilot study with 118 people in which researchers matched subject’s smartwatch data to a scoring system called MDS-UPDRS Part III, the gold standard by which motor symptoms of Parkinson’s are measured.
Not that I have Parkinson’s disease, but I’ve finally decided to order an Apple Watch as I’ve been pretty impressed with what it is all able to do on the health diagnostics side.
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The system uses an Apple Watch accelerometer and gyroscope data to detect certain symptoms of Parkinson’s and side effects of treatments.