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Review
. 2014:2014:897282.
doi: 10.1155/2014/897282. Epub 2014 Aug 19.

Quantitative evaluation of the use of actigraphy for neurological and psychiatric disorders

Weidong Pan  1 , Yu Song  2 , Shin Kwak  3 , Sohei Yoshida  4 , Yoshiharu Yamamoto  5
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Review

Quantitative evaluation of the use of actigraphy for neurological and psychiatric disorders

Weidong Pan et al. Behav Neurol. 2014.

Abstract

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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