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tools he has helped develop to be available on standby whenever patients with PD need them. Tolani is planning a trip to Asia, and he’s concerned about how he’ll do without his dance classes. He plans to ask Leventhal to borrow a Glass so he can use the app while he’s away. “With this PD condition, it becomes very comfortable to become isolated and not say or do anything because you struggle so much with speech and everything else, which is so discouraging,” Tolani said. “You can go through normal life as best you can if you have access to this kind of technology to help you.” Bronte-Stewart envisions augmentedreality assistance being part of a sophisticated technology suite for patients living with PD and other movement and cognitive disorders. Neurostimulation has been used to override abnormal brain rhythms in patients with PD and other movement disorders for more than 3 decades. Bronte-Stewart’s laboratory is working on so-called closed-loop deep brain stimulation, a type of advanced neural pacemaker that only sends signals to the brain when needed. Based on information from a wearable sensor, the brain pacemaker will deal with a specific set of motor symptoms, she explained. “I can see the link between this and something like Google Glass, where the patient’s getting visual feedback,” BronteStewart said. “They may be walking wearing our wearable sensor, and the whole therapy will start working together.”