
The future of movement disorders
The Future of Everything
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How to Assess Movement Disorders in Parkinson's Disease
The only way to quote measure these complicated movements in Parkinson's disease was by clinical rating scale, which don't get me wrong is a great clinical rating scale. But if you're going to try and understand the mechanisms of how the brain controls or doesn't control movement, you need a more engineering level type of movement analysis. So I set about developing computerized objective tools that allowed us to measure what we call fine motor control. And that has led to a whole new discovery ofHow the brain controls movement.
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