Citation
Bruña Fernandez, Ricardo and Pineda Pardo, José Ángel and Rocón de Lima, Eduardo and Romero Muñoz, Juan Pablo and Benito León, Julián and Maestu Unturbe, Fernando
(2015).
Study of resting state cortico-cortical synchronization aimed to accurately discriminate Parkinson and essential tremor patients: A MEG signal-space connectivity study.
In: "5th Biennial meeting of the ISACM", 23/06/2015 - 26/06/2015, Helsinki, Finlandia. p. 68.
Abstract
Motor tremor-related syndromes like essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson?s disease (PD) have a common symptomatology in early stages: the presence of tremor. Even when both diseases have a different aetiology and, thus, different prognosis and treatment, the symptoms in early stages are quite similar. This usually leads to misdiagnosis, with the associated risks and limitations. A PD patient with an ET treatment will continue developing the disease, loosing an important window of action. On the other hand, an ET patient with a PD treatment will suffer strong side effects. A correct diagnosis is in both cases mandatory for the well-being of the patients. In this experiment we tried to find a biomarker based in magneto-physiological data that allows clinicians a faster and easier diagnosis of ET and PD patients, saving time and money to both patients and hospitals.