Abstract

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) represents a major and rapidly growing burden to the healthcare ecosystem. A growing body of evidence indicates that cognitive, behavioral, sensory, and motor changes may precede clinical manifestations of AD by several years. Existing tests designed to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases, while well-validated, are often less effective in detecting deviations from normal cognitive decline trajectory in the earliest stages of the disease. In the quest for gold standards for AD assessment, there is a growing interest in the identification of readily accessible digital biomarkers, which harness advances in consumer grade mobile and wearable technologies. Topics examined include a review of existing early clinical manifestations of AD and a path to the respective sensor and mobile/wearable device usage to acquire domain-centric data towards objective, high frequency and passive digital phenotyping.

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Title
Digital biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease: the mobile/wearable devices opportunity
Author
Kourtis, Lampros C 1 ; Regele, Oliver B 2 ; Wright, Justin M 3 ; Jones, Graham B 4 

 Tufts University Medical Center, Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Boston, USA (GRID:grid.67033.31) (ISNI:0000 0000 8934 4045); Evidation Health, 167 2nd Ave, San Mateo, USA (GRID:grid.492625.e); Cambridge Innovation Center, Eli Lilly and Company, Cambridge, USA (GRID:grid.417540.3) (ISNI:0000 0000 2220 2544) 
 Cambridge Innovation Center, Eli Lilly and Company, Cambridge, USA (GRID:grid.417540.3) (ISNI:0000 0000 2220 2544); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (GRID:grid.116068.8) (ISNI:0000 0001 2341 2786) 
 Cambridge Innovation Center, Eli Lilly and Company, Cambridge, USA (GRID:grid.417540.3) (ISNI:0000 0000 2220 2544); Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, USA (GRID:grid.418424.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0439 2056) 
 Tufts University Medical Center, Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Boston, USA (GRID:grid.67033.31) (ISNI:0000 0000 8934 4045); Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, USA (GRID:grid.418424.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0439 2056) 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
23986352
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2528862345
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.