I read with great interest the usefulness of actigraphy for parkinsonian signs [
[1]
]. In clinical and epidemiological studies of sleep, actigraphy has been used frequently
to judge the sleep/awake state of the subjects [
[2]
]. I have used actigraphy [
3
,
4
], but have seldom engaged in direct usage of actigraphic activity counts, as presented
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 24, 2011
Accepted:
August 4,
2011
Received in revised form:
June 14,
2011
Received:
June 3,
2011
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© 2011 Elsevier B.V. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
