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I'm passionate about

Getting the most information possible from data about patients. It's a dirty secret of medical research that most patient data never gets to see the light of day.

An idea worth spreading

It's not all in the genes - nurture matters much more than nature - we urgently need to know about our ourselves and our environment and we can start to do this with the technologies we have, today.

Talk to me about

Decentralized healthcare, remote symptom monitoring.

People don't know that I'm good at

Programming synthesizers, playing drum kit.

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• A reply on Talk: Max Little: A test for Parkinson’s with a phone call

  Feb 23 2013: Thanks Tomoshige, the support is very much appreciated. As you say, it turns out that detecting Parkinson's from voice recordings is a very difficult problem, unlike other machine learning problems I've worked on in the past.
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  A reply on Talk: Max Little: A test for Parkinson’s with a phone call

  Feb 2 2013: Thank you very much for the positive comments and support. To clarify: Parkinson's Voice Initiative is not a diagnostic service, it is a clinical trial aimed at testing the ability to detect Parkinson's using telephone-based recordings. The data collection phase of the trial is now complete but if you would be interested in participating in new studies, please do take the survey to register your interest on the project website:
  http://www.parkinsonsvoice.org/

• A reply on Talk: Max Little: A test for Parkinson’s with a phone call

  Jan 26 2013: A really nice idea, thanks Michael. We're looking to find a way to make the research self-sustaining, and that's certainly one important part of making that happen.

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  Jan 4 2013: Of course, I would be very happy for you to give a seminar on this!

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  Dec 3 2012: Thanks Alexis - this kind of encouragement is exactly what the project needs.

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  Dec 3 2012: Very many thanks for the positive encouragement. We've had a fantastic response - over 17,500 calls so far, more than exceeding the target.

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  Dec 2 2012: Really appreciate the positive words, thanks James!

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  Dec 2 2012: A very interesting idea. We haven't looked at concussion but would certainly be interested to find out more!

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  Dec 2 2012: We do recognize that voice disorders could be a confounding factor, so, we ask whether participants have been diagnosed with some kind of voice disorder. That way, we can, if necessary, restrict predictions to only on those who do not have a clinical voice disorder.

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  Dec 2 2012: This would be more of a longitudinal rather than cross-sectional approach. The major difficulty with this is that you will usually wait a very long time (years to decades) to find out about those very, very few participants who are later diagnosed with the disease, given the low prevalence rate in the population. This would be extremely useful if looking for pre-clinical signs of the disease, but the current PVI project will only allow indirect extrapolation to address this question.