Music Man From: Discover Magazine - 10/2014 - page 72 Tod Machover is more than the godfather of Guitar Hero. The inventor, composer and MIT professor created the technology behind the popular video game series, but for Machover, music is not just entertainment: It's a tool with potential health applications ranging from diagnosing early Parkinson’s disease to retraining stroke victims to speak. Q - What about using music for diagnosis? A - A methematician named Max Little workd specifically on taking the speaking voice and doing signal processing on it, and finding out things about your state of health. In particular, Parkinson's disease happens to be something that, before you can diagnose early stage Parkinson's in any other way, you can literally take someone speaking over the telephone and analyze it really quickly. From: http://discovermagazine.com/2014/oct/20-music-man Links: Parkinson's Voice Initiative http://parkinsonsvoice.org/science.php A test for Parkinson's with a phone call http://www.ted.com/speakers/max_little Max Little http://www.maxlittle.net/home/index.php