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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,136
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Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,136
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Another take-away from the PDF 50th symposium: many of the research presentations focused upon non-motor symptoms of PD. Many researchers and movement disorder specialists are thinking that PD does not begin in the brain at all.
Did you know, for example, that the lose of smell is almost always present before physical symptoms. There is a clinical trial recruiting for this. It is also using family members in the trial. It appears that many non-PD family members have failed the test, only to become PD symptomatic within two years.
Other non-motor issues include constipation that may begin years before PD become symptomatic. Also depression and excessive sweating.
Paula, do you remember other non-motor discussions of this kind.
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