Since its inception, the Journal of Young Investigators (JYI) has strived to offer undergraduate researchers a voice in the scientific world and extend the undergraduate experience to encompass academic publishing. Through enabling undergraduate researchers to both submit novel research articles and take part in every step of the Journal’s everyday operations, JYI staff, Board of Directors, and university mentors across the world have provided undergraduates access to the research process.
Tremors can be described as an involuntary and uncontrollable movement of parts of the body. They are classified based on characteristics like frequency, amplitude, activation, among others. Such parameters are essential to identify so that better treatment can be provided to patients suffering from tremor conditions. Electromyography (EMG) is a diagnostic procedure to assess the health of muscles and motor neurons. Though used in the past, EMG is expensive, invasive, and potentially painful. Therefore, there is the need to create a painless, affordable, fast, and effective apparatus that can gather, quantify, and classify tremor parameters from patients, resulting in a short list of possible diagnoses which can be narrowed down by a physician. This research aims to create a Tremor Diagnosis Device (TDD) using an accelerometer, Raspberry Pi 4, and Python code.
The Journal of Young Investigators, established in 1997, is doubling down its support in undergraduate scientific experience by diversifying the content with in Editorial articles as the latest addition. This move is followed by the first published JYI editorial written by Brian Lee, Alexis Gkantiragas, Yi Ting Loo, and Brittany Pugh outlining the fundamental aspects of editorials.
