I have commented the article on PLM. Copying is not allowed so this is a slightly different comment. Well, time is running out for us all, so here it goes, by the way I had hoped for some reactions on PLM, now:
This is an attempt, a very original attempt trying to explain why we having lived with PD for years sometimes feel akward in social settings. Why didn`t they ask us? Yes, why. The answer is plain and simple, no meta analysis needed. If you have a body with no movements at all or too many strange movements AND a voice not to be trusted, AND a body language difficult to read, how can you not feel an alien in some settings. Enough good reasons, or? Some original brains wanted to find more . They got money, not to believe unless your country likes programs for science. The patients were there, and they started with an original hypothesis. Conclusion: People with advanced PD are not feeling ok socially, beacuse they cannot read the surroundings different reactions. Amazing knowledge. The action shall be, we PWP have to learn how to interpretate faces and different expressions. And I thought it was the other way round.
I do not believe that teaching me about interpretation of different facial expressions will increase my social ability, when my feet are going through the floor and my body is twisting like Tina Turner.
I do not understand what kind of thirst for knowledge this represents. We know something about the brain of other groups who cannot communicate. People with autism do not have so called mirror neurons, important structures and necessary in reading other people. People with autism do not know what the world expects from them. What about our mirror neurons? Does this study mention anything about any anatomical structures except something vague about PD not restricted to the commandotower of our movements. What about our mirror neurons? Do they go down the drain with most of our substantia nigra?
With respect we do not have time or money for information like this.
Science must concentrate on basic information on how the brain works. No room for fairytales or strange hypothesis, but decent hard work. People out there are suffering.
Aleks