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The disease called “Isolated REM Sleep Behavior Disorder” (iRBD) is considered a harbinger of diseases of the nervous system. Austrian researchers have now developed a diagnostic tool based on artificial intelligence.
With iRBD, the muscles are not inhibited during the REM sleep phase as in healthy people. “Affected people have a lot of quick twitches in their legs and arms. They also carry out movements as if they were acting out their dreams,” says Birgit Högl, head of sleep medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck. The neurologist assumes that one in a hundred people suffers from iRBD, mainly seniors.
In a project funded by the Science Fund, Högl, her team and experts from the Austrian Institute of Technology developed a diagnostic tool that combines a special camera, also used in game consoles, with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect iRBD-specific movements.
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