Using artificial intelligence to tell apart two types of tremor

This research is testing whether artificial intelligence can accurately tell the difference between two conditions that cause tremor: Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. You would complete two simple hand tests — a tapping test and drawing an Archimedean spiral — and the study team would use your results to teach a computer program to recognize which condition is causing your tremor.

Doctors sometimes struggle to tell Parkinson's disease tremor from essential tremor based on clinical signs alone, but the two conditions require very different treatments. This study aims to develop a faster, more reliable way to distinguish between them using artificial intelligence analysis of hand movement patterns.