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Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by wordupmaking »

ghvknvgvh wrote: post #91
wordupmaking wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> From reading other comments in this thread, the story appealed to them. The story, or the writing style? I also upvoted the story, because I'm not going to punish it for the shit writing. And I actually dislike that the topmost comment, which I agree to from the bottom of my heart, is about the style; but the very fact that it's at the top means that maybe even more people find it just as annoying. As for the style…

This is not news, therefore it doesn't have to be written in the style you linked. If it was, people would read the first paragraph, move on, and then complain that they wasted their money in buying whatever newspaper/magazine they're reading.

I'm still asking what style it's supposed to be. If it doesn't have a name, it could use one.

> If it was, people would read the first paragraph, move on, and then complain that they wasted their money in buying whatever newspaper/magazine they're reading.

If this blog post was written in a way that isn't scatterbrained, people would complain about the money they wasted on "whatever newspaper/magazine they're reading"? I think the word I'm looking for here is "no".

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by bsg75 »

caycep wrote: post #95

Hm. Parkinson's patients sometimes have tremors, but all tremors are not Parkinson's. The physiological explanation of Parkinson's "firing off wrong signals to muscles" is not correct. Parkinson's disease is defined primarily by bradykinesia and limb rigidity - the difficulty of the motor planning part of the brain processing motor commands to the motor cortex. Much of the disability in Parkinson's disease comes from…

Does the article even mention if the watch has any active vibration adjustment? I may have missed it, but I'm wondering if this is a specific vibration pattern, or if any similar vibrations would help this particular person.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by kylixz »

caycep wrote: post #95

Hm. Parkinson's patients sometimes have tremors, but all tremors are not Parkinson's. The physiological explanation of Parkinson's "firing off wrong signals to muscles" is not correct. Parkinson's disease is defined primarily by bradykinesia and limb rigidity - the difficulty of the motor planning part of the brain processing motor commands to the motor cortex. Much of the disability in Parkinson's disease comes from…

Are you in some way working with those with Parkinson's? You seem highly knowledgeable. I have a relative that I believe is in denial of the disease (Parkinson's + as described by one doctor) and am looking for some insight. Apologies for the out of band comment, just looking for help.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by caycep »

bsg75 wrote: post #102
caycep wrote: post #95

Hm. Parkinson's patients sometimes have tremors, but all tremors are not Parkinson's. The physiological explanation of Parkinson's "firing off wrong signals to muscles" is not correct. Parkinson's disease is defined primarily by bradykinesia and limb rigidity - the difficulty of the motor planning part of the brain processing motor commands to the motor cortex. Much of the disability in Parkinson's disease comes from…

Does the article even mention if the watch has any active vibration adjustment? I may have missed it, but I'm wondering if this is a specific vibration pattern, or if any similar vibrations would help this particular person.

I think it was buried deep in there somehow, but I didn't really see a great explanation of what exactly they were doing.

TBH there seems to be a ton of "wearables" ideas flooding the poster sessions of the last few Movement Disorders Congresses, but honestly, these all either a) focus on tremor tracking to the exclusion of everything else and thus totally misses the main point of Parkinson's, or b) pour a ton of money onto custom hardware and electronics, yet can't really accomplish more than what you get with a fitbit or Apple Watch,

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by caycep »

kylixz wrote: post #103
caycep wrote: post #95

Hm. Parkinson's patients sometimes have tremors, but all tremors are not Parkinson's. The physiological explanation of Parkinson's "firing off wrong signals to muscles" is not correct. Parkinson's disease is defined primarily by bradykinesia and limb rigidity - the difficulty of the motor planning part of the brain processing motor commands to the motor cortex. Much of the disability in Parkinson's disease comes from…

Are you in some way working with those with Parkinson's? You seem highly knowledgeable. I have a relative that I believe is in denial of the disease (Parkinson's + as described by one doctor) and am looking for some insight. Apologies for the out of band comment, just looking for help.

Hm, sure. Not sure what the best way to get in touch would be through HN, but send an email to my username at gmail i guess.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by member221 »

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in my mid to late 40's. I had hand tremors for several years. Gradually became worse. I then noticed when I was tired the tremors were worse. I started falling for no apparent reason. I now have stiffness in my legs and need to walk with 2 canes or a walker. I am very slow getting around. I am now 52 years old. I am forgetful at times and have difficulty expressing myself. I have difficulty swallowing at times. I become tired easily, I also become quite dizzy when performing any athletic function (jogging). I was on Levodopa/Carbidopa, 100/25. nothing was really working to help my condition. Finally i started on parkinson's natural herbal formula i ordered from Health HERBAL CLINIC, i read alot of great reviews from other patients who used the parkinson's herbal treatment. My symptoms totally declined over a 4-5 weeks use of the Health herbal clinic Parkinsons disease natural herbal formula. , its effects on parkinson's is amazing, all My symptoms gradually faded away, I have been active and hope to continue! Visit www. healthherbalclinic. net or email at Info@ healthherbalclinic. net I recommend this Parkinson's herbal formula for all Parkinson's Patients.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by member221 »

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in my mid to late 40's. I had hand tremors for several years. Gradually became worse. I then noticed when I was tired the tremors were worse. I started falling for no apparent reason. I now have stiffness in my legs and need to walk with 2 canes or a walker. I am very slow getting around. I am now 52 years old. I am forgetful at times and have difficulty expressing myself. I have difficulty swallowing at times. I become tired easily, I also become quite dizzy when performing any athletic function (jogging). I was on Levodopa/Carbidopa, 100/25. nothing was really working to help my condition. Finally i started on parkinson's natural herbal formula i ordered from Health HERBAL CLINIC, i read alot of great reviews from other patients who used the parkinson's herbal treatment. My symptoms totally declined over a 4-5 weeks use of the Health herbal clinic Parkinsons disease natural herbal formula. , its effects on parkinson's is amazing, all My symptoms gradually faded away, I have been active and hope to continue! Visit www. healthherbalclinic. net or email at Info@ healthherbalclinic. net I recommend this Parkinson's herbal formula for all Parkinson's Patients.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by badminton1 »

badminton1 wrote: post #24
cperciva wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft is actively rebranding itself from "evil megacorporation" to "innovative doer of good".

Like "Microsoft Except that Microsoft used to collect 2 billion dollars in patents from Linux based product vendors. They totally "<3" open source.

To the downvoters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by corpMaverick »

Cybiote wrote: post #77
erlehmann_ wrote: post #12

> As part of her work, Zhang researched the root cause of tremors. She spent six months, off and on, building prototypes. She sometimes worked in her London home, soldering wires to PC boards and tinkering with coin cell motors to create vibrations. She tested early versions with four other people with Parkinson’s, producing promising results for three, spurring the idea forward, she says. This paragraph reads like t…

I understand your frustration as I too was looking for what series of hypotheses her journey of discovery took her through. Alas, this was a (good) human interest piece so that was not the focus. Assuming this device works, it is fun to think about why this might be. All I could extract from the article is that it sends vibrations and fails for some, requires randomness in others and works at a specific pattern for L…

TIL about Stochastic resonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_resonance

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by erlehmann_ »

erlehmann_ wrote: post #57
obstinate wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can see where you got your expectations from. You should reach out to the researcher. Maybe they can tell you why it's not OSS. I'd not be surprised if it was some mix of medical devices being a special case, and the IP being owned by Microsoft.

I wrote Hayan Zhang the following Email with the subject line “Source code & schematics for Parkinson's device?”: Hello Hayan Zhang, I have read several articles about the “Emma device” you have built, but could not find any details. Have you published source code & schematics? The BBC has a GitHub repository for code related to the documentary. The one open issue on it is from a person who wants to help their father…

No answer. I wrote to Hayan Zhang btw.
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