Digital Health Technologies in Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 96
Special Issue Editors
Interests: movement disorders; Parkinson’s disease; Huntington’s disease; essential tremor; telehealth; digital health technologies
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Digital health technologies, such as smartphones, wearable sensors, and ambient sensors, are increasingly being studied in Parkinson’s disease. The potential uses of digital health technologies in Parkinson’s disease are broad. Digital health technologies have the potential to aid in the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, enable symptom tracking, objectively assess disease and progression, distinguish different phenotypes, generate novel insights into functional ability, detect pre-clinical disease, and improve the prediction of clinical outcomes. Such technologies stand to improve the clinical care of individuals with Parkinson’s disease and provide more sensitive measures of disease progression that may speed up the development of novel therapeutics. However, barriers to the widespread use of digital health technologies in Parkinson’s disease remain, and less is known about the use of digital health technologies in related disorders and for assessing non-motor symptoms.
This Special Issue aims to advance understanding of the use of digital health technologies in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. We encourage submissions that examine the clinical care and research applications of digital health technologies across all stages of Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ruth B. Schneider
Dr. Christine Doss Esper
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital health technologies
- telehealth
- wearables
- smartphones
- Parkinson’s disease
- atypical parkinsonism
