--I'm not a physician, just a fierce researcher and consummate autodidact. (That can actually be said for most of the "experts" on various subjects here at Neurotalk--we have a vested interest in keeping up with the latest research in fields that might impact our conditions. And we become far more expert in those conditions than most doctors are--meaning we then scare the living **** out of them.)

(I have found personally I can only deal with physicians that do not mind well-informed patients--in other words, don't have that big doctor ego getting in the way of commmunication--and who work in teaching hospitals or research institutions, and therefore might have actually read some of the same papers that I and others here have.)