Digital-robotic markers for hallucinations in Parkinson's disease
Albert, L. P.; Potheegadoo, J.; Herbelin, B.; Bernasconi, F.; Blanke, O.
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Hallucinations are frequent non-motor symptoms in Parkinsons disease (PD) associated with dementia and higher mortality. Despite their high clinical relevance, current assessments of hallucinations are based on verbal self-reports and interviews that are limited by important biases. Here, we used virtual reality (VR), robotics, and digital online technology to quantify presence hallucination (PH) in laboratory and home-based settings. We establish that elevated numerosity estimation of digital humans in VR is a digital marker for experimentally induced PH in healthy participants, as confirmed across several control conditions and analyses. We translated the digital marker (numerosity estimation) to an online procedure that 170 PD patients carried out remotely at their homes, revealing that PD patients with disease-related PH (but not control PD patients) showed higher numerosity estimation. Numerosity estimation enables quantitative monitoring of hallucinations, is an easy-to-use unobtrusive online method, reaching people far away from medical centers, translating neuroscientific findings using robotics and VR, to patients homes without specific equipment or trained staff.
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