Finger-tapping tasks are widely used to evaluate motor function in Parkinson’s disease (PD), particularly bradykinesia. A healthcare professional can assess speed, rhythm, amplitude, and fatigue by ...

Table 1 Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) scoring criteria for the finger-tapping test Fig. 1: Block diagram describing the analysis pipeline of the ...

Suddenly getting lost, failing to recognize family members, or forgetting words and names are well-known symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Psychologists have now discovered that the disease also ...

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by 4-repeat tau deposition, whose symptoms overlap with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It is necessary to develop ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...