There’s currently no cure for Parkinson’s, a debilitating neurological disease. There’s also no blood test that can detect it, meaning early intervention is almost impossible.
But soon there might be a shockingly easy way to screen for Parkinson’s disease. It would be as simple as picking up the telephone and saying “ahhh.”
“There’s some evidence, admittedly weak, that voice disturbances may well be one of the first or early indicator of the disease,” mathematician Max Little tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
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