{"id":7501,"date":"2012-08-18T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2014-11-09T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T02:52:50","slug":"friday-math-movie-a-test-for-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-a-test-for-parkinsons-7501","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: A test for Parkinson&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician Max Little describes how an analysis of a person's voice could tell if they have Parkinson's disease. This could be a great thing, as the disease affects over 6 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>He points out there are currently no easy (or cheap) ways to diagnose Parkinson's disease. <\/p>\n<p>He proposes a solution based on our speech patterns. In a healthy person, the vocal cords produce a signal (a modified sine wave) which is regular, but those suffering from Parkinson's disease produce a signal which demonstrates tremor and weakness (the signal is not so clean and regular.)<\/p>\n<p>Little has set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkinsonsvoice.org\/\">Parkinson's Voice Initiative<\/a>, which collects voice patterns by smartphone app, in order to move this research forward.<\/p>\n<p>So this is an interesting application of periodic trigonometric graphs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HWsehvUkI-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-a-test-for-parkinsons-7501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/08\/parkinsons-test.jpg\" alt=\"test of parkison's\" title=\"test for parkinson's\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere's a possible test for Parkison's Disease based on math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}