DASH - Digital App for Speech & Health Monitoring

This project investigates the use of speech recordings and user-friendly technologies to better understand, diagnose and monitor neurodegenerative conditions and dementia.

Condition(s)

  • All neurodegenerative conditions & carers
  • Cognitive disorders
  • Motor neuron disease
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Parkinson’s & movement disorders

Project type

  • Understanding the condition

About the project

Many people living with neurodegenerative conditions such as motor neuron disease, dementia, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease experience speech problems. Using common digital technologies such as smartphone apps, we can record and analyse speech, along with other health information in detail. We aim to provide new information for people living with these conditions, researchers, and healthcare professionals. This study will investigate the use of these digital technologies and speech recordings to help diagnose and monitor these conditions.

The results may be of benefit to people with neurological conditions in the future. We anticipate that our research will lead to a better understanding of these conditions and could help in producing new and better treatments, tests, and ultimately, preventing neurological conditions.

Information leaflet

Please download the relevant information leaflet:

Funder(s)

This study is funded via a collaboration between Eisai, Gates Ventures and LifeArc and The Anne Rowling Clinic.

Publication(s)

A systematic review and narrative analysis of digital speech biomarkers in Motor Neuron Disease

Molly Bowden, Emily Beswick, Johnny Tam, David Perry, Alice Smith, Judy Newton, Siddharthan Chandran, Oliver Watts, Suvankar Pal

2023 Dec 07 in npj Digital Medicine

DOI: 10.1038/s41746-023-00959-9

Perceptions of digital technology use for monitoring health in people living with neurological disorders

Katie Reid, Emily Beswick, Johnny Tam, Alexander Symonds, Dawn Lyle, Judy Newton, David Perry, Jonathan Neale, Siddharthan Chandran, Suvankar Pal

2024 Jul 15 in J Neurol Sci

DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2024.123072

DASH logo - Digital App for Speech and Health Monitoring Study

Status

Recruiting now

Contact

At present, it is only possible to sign up in person at the Anne Rowling Clinic.

loth.dash@nhs.scot

0131 465 9517

×