Thread: just a thought
View Single Post
Old 04-06-2009, 01:08 PM
indigogo's Avatar
indigogo indigogo is offline
Senior Member
  
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
15 yr Member
indigogo indigogo is offline
Senior Member
indigogo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
15 yr Member
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by girija View Post
Rosebud,
Just a quick reply and more later.
I am participating in a study that is correlating structural changes in the brains of PD patients with cognitive changes, sleep apnea and alterations in sleep patterns, memory. It looks like what happens, when and how much damage to substantia nigra is critical to the function of other parts of the brain and are reflected in the behavoir of PWP.
I will write more about this study later.
Girija
Girija - thanks - looking forward to what you find out. I've always wondered if, for a long time, researchers didn't look beyond the substantia nigra because they thought of PD as only a movement disorder: PD patients present with motor problems; they look for damage at the site of motor control, the substantia nigra. But then, what of the other symptoms? Are they also due to s.n. damage, or are other parts of the brain also damaged? (Braak's research would seem to implicate damage other than just to the s.n.) - or, do we have a lot more to learn about the role of the s.n.?
__________________
Carey

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony
indigogo is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
"Thanks for this!" says:
bandido1 (04-06-2009)