The Importance of Finger Tapping in Parkinson's Disease

The fingers are really, as I say, the canary in the mind there. So we've known for quite a long time that the fingers areReally showing the deficit before you see it in the limbs and specifically in the gate and the balance. The postuma group have shown they've looked at what we call prodromal Parkinson's disease so people who act out their dreams actually can go on and develop Parkinson's disease. We're now beginning to see industry and pharmaceutical companies begin to take on mostly wearables because those are the ones that are FDA approved right now. And they're actually beginning to use these in clinical trials, which is something I've been wanting.