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A test for Parkinson's with a phone call

Max Little · TED

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About

Parkinson's disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide, causing weakness and tremors, but there's no objective way to detect it early on. Yet. Applied mathematician and TED Fellow Max Little is testing a simple, cheap tool that in trials is able to detect Parkinson's with 99 percent accuracy -- in a 30-second phone call.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2012
Speaker
Max Little
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Biology, Medicine and health, Computer science, Psychology and the brain, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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