Saturday, 11 January 2014

Hand lettering is found in Parkinson's disease

According to the early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease can be handwritten. Early diagnosis, as well as a variety of diseases is of particular importance in the treatment of this disease. According to the report, Israel's Rambam Hospital in Haifa University and a group of researchers conducted experiments in this direction. Patients with Parkinson's disease in healthy people if they were comparing manuscripts. During this study, participants with a pen is designed specifically for the names and addresses of the requested records on an electronic tablet. 

researchers then used computer records of the participants, at the time of writing, pressure, size of letters, and taking into account a range of parameters investigated.
, a large part of the results of the study, approximately showed 97.5% detection accuracy. Patients and healthy individuals were the writings of the major differences.

indications that the patients, the next step in the air to keep the pencil rather than a decrease in cognitive skills proved.

said the scientists, clinical diagnosis of hand-writings of these changes have occurred many years ago, so the early diagnosis of the disease they can shed light on. Research, "European Neurological Society" was published in the journal.

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