Patent ID: 7890340

Claim:
A method for allowing a patient, suffering from a neurological disease and receiving medication for said disease, to self-monitor the patient's actual state, comprising the steps of: providing a computer at a location readily accessible to a patient substantially on a daily basis for acquiring information from a patient; acquiring information, via an interactive procedure, from a patient wherein the acquired information is selected from a group consisting of information characterizing a motor function of the patient, information characterizing a verbal communication ability of the patient, and information characterizing cognitive abilities of the patient; providing an expert system accessible by the computer; providing said acquired patient information to said expert system for processing thereby, and determining, from the acquired information, at least one quantified indicator describing the state of the patient suffering from a neurological disease which is treated with medication; and providing said computer with an output device and making said quantified indicator available to the patient via said output device wherein said information comprises information characterizing a motor function of said patient, and wherein the step of acquiring information comprises conducting software-controlled motor function exercises for quantifying at least one of neutral, negative and positive effects of said medication on said patient's state, and quantifying said negative and positive effects for processing by said expert system for use in determining said quantified indicator.