Quantitative and objective evaluation of disease severity and/or drug effect is necessary in
clinical practice. Wearable accelerometers such as an actigraph enable long‐term recording …

An actigraph is a portable device that measures movement, usually of the non-dominant
wrist, to estimate rest-activity patterns and sleep-wake cycles. The use of actigraphy has …

Subjective symptoms of the patients are often focused in psychiatric disorders. However,
psychiatric disorders are also characterized by an array of clinical signs. In the diagnoses of …

Especially in pharmacotherapeutic research, a variety of methods to monitor behavioural
and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are currently being discussed. To date …

Actigraphy, the long-term assessment of wrist movements, is used in several research fields,
among which are included sleep and circadian rhythms. Actigraphs record movements …

Aim: To evaluate whether the specified analytical objective scale represents disease
severity for neurological movement disorders according to the physical activity of the …

Objective Alterations of motor behavior in depression play a key role in psychosocial
activities and interpersonal communication and are relevant for differential diagnosis and …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease resulting in impairments in motor and
mental performance and restrictions in activities. Self‐report instruments are commonly used …

Background: There is growing interest in developing inexpensive and objective motor
fluctuation evaluation methods for Parkinson's disease (PD). Objectives: We aim to compare …

I read with great interest the usefulness of actigraphy for parkinsonian signs [1]. In clinical
and epidemiological studies of sleep, actigraphy has been used frequently to judge the …