The neural correlates of self-paced finger tapping in bipolar depression with motor retardation

Quantitative measurements of alternating

Quantitative measurements of alternating finger tapping in Parkinson's disease correlate with UPDRS motor disability and reveal the improvement in fine motor control from medication and deep brain stimulation

✍ Ana Lisa Taylor Tavares; Gregory S.X.E Jefferis; Mandy Koop; Bruce C. Hill; Trev 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 354 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) is the primary outcome measure in most clinical trials of Parkinson's disease (PD) therapeutics. Each subscore of the motor section (UPDRS III) compresses a wide range of motor performance into a coarse‐grained scale from 0 to 4; the