Spiral drawing time as a measure of bradykinesia

Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-21

  Banaszkiewicz, Krzysztof ^a   Rudzińska, Monika ^a   Bukowczan, Sylwia ^a   Izworski, Andrzej ^b   Szczudlik, Andrzei ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bradykinesia assessment; Digitizing tablet; Parkinson's disease; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN TEST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NINE HOLE PEG BOARD TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE TREMOR ANALYSIS ON THE GRAPHIC DIGITIZING TABLET; RESPONSE TIME; SPIRAL DRAWING TIME; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TREMOR; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; TREMOR;

EID: 65949094580     PISSN: 00283843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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