
The particle swarm used to evolve the neural network had a popula-
tion of 30 particles and a maximum velocity of 2.0. The initial damping
weight was 0.9, and it was set to decrease to 0.4 over 2,000 iterations.
However, only 38 iterations, or generations, were required to evolve the
network. The process was thus extremely fast.
These results are very encouraging. Time has not permitted the evolu-
tion of other network topologies, but this is planned as part of the con-
tinuing work in this area. Also planned are attempts to distinguish be-
tween essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease and between pathologic
and physiologic tremor (at the early stages ...