The researchers found four gait features to be most significant for the purposes of diagnosing Parkinson's: step length, velocity, width and consistency (or width variability). To gauge the severity ...

Canadian researchers are the first to study how different patterns in the way older adults walk could more accurately diagnose different types of dementia and identify Alzheimer's disease. A new study ...

A recent study investigated whether gait parameters were implicated in motor symptoms or the risk of falling, fining that backward gait (BG) dynamics were more impaired in patients with Parkinson's ...

Alzheimer's and Lewy body disease have unique signatures of gait impairment which may reflect underlying pathology, an exploratory study suggested. Compared with people who have Alzheimer's disease, ...

The progression of a range cognitive conditions is often associated with a deterioration in motor control, and recently we’re seeing how the finer details of this physical decline can help us tell one ...

A tune sung aloud – or silently to oneself – can help people with Parkinson’s set a stable rhythm to their gait while increasing walking speed, according to a team of neuroscience and physical therapy ...

Scientists affiliated with the Department of Physical Education’s Human Movement Laboratory (Movi-Lab) at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Bauru, Brazil, are using artificial intelligence to help ...