Parkinson's disease are diagnosed by voice

Parkinson's disease is possible to detect in the years before the first symptoms on the basis of a simple analysis of the voice. That is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

To diagnose   Parkinson's disease will soon have enough to listen to the voice message man left on the answering machine. As shown by the first clinical study of this model, it allows to distinguish disease with a precision of 99%. Established scientists computer program sensitively detects the slightest vibrations of the voice, including tremors, weakness and shortness of breath that are considered early signs of the disease.

Voice analysis provides the doctor is absolutely unprecedented level of detail that he could get yourself in other ways through the years just after the start Parkinson's disease . British scientists now want to test whether the American program to give the same effect when the voice recognition on the phone.

If the tests run successfully, the program will help many thousands of people, becoming a cheap and fast tool for disease diagnosis. In theory, people could be checked, all without leaving your home, but only by calling the doctor. So doctors will be starting early treatment of Parkinson's disease, which can seriously impede the progression of the disease.

Today, diagnosis of the disease can take years, since no blood test that confirms the presence of Parkinson's disease does not exist. The number of victims of this incurable disease that is growing due to the general increase in life expectancy of mankind. Among the most famous people who suffer or have suffered from Parkinson's disease, it may be noted actor Mikhail Ulyanov, Bob Hoskins, Michael J. Fox, boxer Muhammad Ali, comedian Arkady Raikin and Pope John Paul II.

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