Simonet, C;
Galmes, M;
Lambert, C;
Rees, R;
Haque, T;
Bestwick, J;
Lees, A;
... Noyce, A; + view all
(2021)
Slow Motion Analysis of Repetitive Tapping (SMART) test: measuring bradykinesia in recently diagnosed Parkinson’s disease and idiopathic anosmia.
Journal of Parkinson's Disease
, 11
(4)
pp. 1901-1915.
10.3233/JPD-212683.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Bradykinesia is the defining motor feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD). There are limitations to its assessment using standard clinical rating scales, especially in the early stages of PD when a floor effect may be observed. OBJECTIVES: To develop a quantitative method to track repetitive tapping movements and to compare people in the early stages of PD, healthy controls, and individuals with idiopathic anosmia. Methods:This was a cross-sectional study of 99 participants (early-stage PD = 26, controls = 64, idiopathic anosmia = 9). For each participant, repetitive finger tapping was recorded over 20 seconds using a smartphone at 240 frames per second. From each video, amplitude between fingers, frequency (number of taps per second), and velocity (distance travelled per second) was extracted. Clinical assessment was based on the motor section of the MDS-UPDRS. RESULTS: People in the early stage of PD performed the task with slower velocity (p < 0.001) and with greater frequency slope than controls (p = 0.003). The combination of reduced velocity and greater frequency slope obtained the best accuracy to separate early-stage PD from controls based on metric thresholds alone (AUC = 0.88). Individuals with anosmia exhibited slower velocity (p = 0.001) and smaller amplitude (p < 0.001) compared with controls. CONCLUSION: We present a simple, proof-of-concept method to detect early motor dysfunction in PD. Mean tap velocity appeared to be the best parameter to differentiate patients with PD from controls. Patients with anosmia also showed detectable differences in motor performance compared with controls which may suggest that some were in the prodromal phase of PD.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Slow Motion Analysis of Repetitive Tapping (SMART) test: measuring bradykinesia in recently diagnosed Parkinson’s disease and idiopathic anosmia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3233/JPD-212683 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-212683 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Anosmia, bradykinesia, Parkinson’s disease, tapping test, technology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129253 |
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