title: Quantitative evaluation of the use of actigraphy for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
abstract: Quantitative and objective evaluation of disease severity and/or drug effect is necessary in clinical practice. Wearable accelerometers such as an actigraph enable long-term recording of a patient's movement during activities and they can be used for quantitative assessment of symptoms due to various diseases. We reviewed some applications of actigraphy with analytical methods that are sufficiently sensitive and reliable to determine the severity of diseases and disorders such as motor and nonmotor disorders like Parkinson's disease, sleep disorders, depression, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) for vascular dementia (VD), seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and stroke, as well as the effects of drugs used to treat them. We believe it is possible to develop analytical methods to assess more neurological or psychopathic disorders using actigraphy records.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China ; Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
authors.forename: Weidong
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0380-4210
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan ; Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Shin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kwak
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kansai University Clinic, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Osaka 590-0482, Japan.
authors.forename: Sohei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.affiliation: Educational Physiology Laboratory, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D056044:Actigraphy; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*