Parkinson's Measurement

 

Highlights

On this site you can:

Measure your side to side tapping speed.

Calculate your levodopa equivalent daily dose.

Graph how your levodopa levels change during the day.

Measure your posture and warn when bad (Android smart phone).

Map the prevalence of PD across England.

View and donate PD data.


What's the big idea? Citizen science.

This site aims to help people with Parkinson's (PwP):

  • by writing free apps to better measure and better manage their symptoms;
  • by collecting and analysing huge amounts of objective data about the relationship between Parkinson's Disease and foods, supplements, drugs, exercise, lifestyle and the environment.

We plan to do this by combining:

  • the skills, experiences and efforts of PwP;
  • computer based symptom measurement;
  • internet based data entry.


PwP EXPERIENCE + INTERNET + ONLINE TESTS → DATA


PWP SKILLS, TIME, COMPUTERS → ANALYSIS


DATA + ANALYSIS → PROGRESS


What to do next?

Read the philosophy page to see if you like the approach.

Do the surveys and tests in PDMeasure.

Prepare new studies.

Write new computer based tests.

Analyse the data.


Features

Anyone can access the raw data.

Common data formats (csv, xml).

Open source code.

Anonymous data entry.

All software listed on this site is free to use with no conditions.

Pharmacodynamics




levodopa equivalent plasma levels




Epidemiology PD England




Accelerometer data

What I'm looking at now

Can grapefruit juice be used to increase the half-life of levodopa? Investigating the effect of grapefruit juice on levodopa