Quantifying Viscous Damping and Stiffness in Parkinsonism Using Data-Driven Model Estimation
A. Werning, D. Umbarila, M. Fite, S. Fergus, J. Zhang, G. F. Molnar, L. A. Johnson, J. Wang, J. L. Vitek, D. Escobar Sanabria
This paper develops a robotic system and model-based approach to estimate viscous damping and stiffness in Parkinsonism, showing that these metrics decrease with deep brain stimulation and better differentiate rigidity changes than existing clinical scores.
bioRxiv · Feb 17, 2021 · PreprintBioengineering