PROPHETIC

PROPHETIC: An innovating Personal Healthcare Service for a holistic remote management and treatment of Parkinson patients... Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, physical movement slowing and in extreme cases, loss of physical movement. Primary symptoms result of decreased motor cortex stimulation caused by insufficient dopamine formation in the brain's dopaminergic neurons. Secondary symptoms include high level cognitive dysfunctions and subtle language problems. PD is chronic and progressive. Currently there is no cure for PD and associated costs, in terms of quality of life and health and social care expenditures, are expected to rise as the population ages... As none of the existing PD interventions has been really effective the field shows potential for the development of systems to monitor individuals and facilitate symptoms' management. The design of efficient ICT management system integrating remote monitoring of multi-..

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