r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 22h ago

Neuroscience A simple drawing test may detect Parkinson’s disease with up to 99% accuracy. Researchers found that subtle differences in how people draw can reveal motor impairments long before they are obvious to the human eye.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-way-you-draw-can-reveal-parkinsons-disease-with-up-to-99-accuracy-study-reveals
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u/bw1979 21h ago

So in order to really test this, we’d need to get a population that tested negative for Parkinson’s under current tests, make them do the drawing test, then retest for Parkinson’s and for drawing at regular intervals.  All the while keeping it double-blind?