Quantitative Evaluation of the Use of Actigraphy for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Quantitative and objective evaluation of disease severity and/or drug effect is necessary in clinical practice. Wearable accelerometers such as an actigraph enable long-term recording of a patient’s movement during activities and they can be used for quantitative assessment of symptoms due to variou...

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Main Authors: Weidong Pan, Yu Song, Shin Kwak, Sohei Yoshida, Yoshiharu Yamamoto
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/897282
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description Quantitative and objective evaluation of disease severity and/or drug effect is necessary in clinical practice. Wearable accelerometers such as an actigraph enable long-term recording of a patient’s movement during activities and they can be used for quantitative assessment of symptoms due to various diseases. We reviewed some applications of actigraphy with analytical methods that are sufficiently sensitive and reliable to determine the severity of diseases and disorders such as motor and nonmotor disorders like Parkinson’s disease, sleep disorders, depression, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) for vascular dementia (VD), seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and stroke, as well as the effects of drugs used to treat them. We believe it is possible to develop analytical methods to assess more neurological or psychopathic disorders using actigraphy records.
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spelling doaj-art-9a65fa3758d94f52b1f2ba82864e52102025-08-20T02:20:15ZengWileyBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85842014-01-01201410.1155/2014/897282897282Quantitative Evaluation of the Use of Actigraphy for Neurological and Psychiatric DisordersWeidong Pan0Yu Song1Shin Kwak2Sohei Yoshida3Yoshiharu Yamamoto4Department of Neurology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, ChinaDepartment of Neurology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, ChinaDepartment of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, JapanDepartment of Neurology, Kansai University Clinic, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Osaka 590-0482, JapanEducational Physiology Laboratory, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, JapanQuantitative and objective evaluation of disease severity and/or drug effect is necessary in clinical practice. Wearable accelerometers such as an actigraph enable long-term recording of a patient’s movement during activities and they can be used for quantitative assessment of symptoms due to various diseases. We reviewed some applications of actigraphy with analytical methods that are sufficiently sensitive and reliable to determine the severity of diseases and disorders such as motor and nonmotor disorders like Parkinson’s disease, sleep disorders, depression, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) for vascular dementia (VD), seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and stroke, as well as the effects of drugs used to treat them. We believe it is possible to develop analytical methods to assess more neurological or psychopathic disorders using actigraphy records.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/897282
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