Diagnostic Tool for Parkinson's Disease (VIDEO)
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Researchers have developed the first tool that can diagnose Parkinson's disease when there are no physical symptoms, offering hope for more effective treatment of the condition.
There are currently no laboratory tests for Parkinson's and by the time people present to a neurologist with symptoms, nerve cells in their brains have already suffered irreversible damage.
The RMIT University research team behind the new diagnostic software -- which works with readily available technologies and has an accuracy rate of 93 percent -- hope it could one day be used as a standard screening test to spot the condition in its earliest stages.
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