i'm in over my head on a lot of this thread but this one is pretty easily understood

http://www.utsa.edu/today/2010/05/neuronresearch.html

Now, couple that website information with this website information
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2210560/posts and then jump over to

http://esciencenews.com/articles/201...nsons.research

and then there is hope for tomorrow.

yes michael, i had seen the one about the acetylcholine but not the surgeryless DBS. Both are encouraging but they need to move urgently. Keep the input coming if you want to - i seem to have an insatiable need to learn this all now. Here is the encouraging statment from the eel article:

The role of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine may ultimately suggest new Parkinson's disease treatments. While a key Parkinson's symptom is tremor, an advanced stage symptom is the inability to start a movement, such as walking. Key words: Symptoms associated with Parkinson's can be helped by reducing acetylcholine-mediated neurotransmission in the brain, but little work has focused on brainstem muscarine receptors in this disease.

This is why cholinesterase inhibitors are not for us, they increase acetylcholine by blocking the enzyme that breaks it down. Also looking at us squarely in the face is a genetic condition that renders the enzyme dysfunctional and they don't wake up from surgery if a certain ingredient is in the anesthesia. Many people don't know they have it till they wake up on a respirator and children die.

pesticide exposure permanently increases your acetylcholine by damaging the enzyme . pesticides bind to acetylchoinesterase-which breaks it down - and acetycholine accumulates, making one ill or in highly toxic state can stop the heart or paralyze. this is not reversible.

do you think some of us have been exposed to pesticides?



OF COURSE WE HAVE!!!!

In our efforts to regulate, deregulate, moderate, potentiate, segregate, or integrate, our neurotransmitters in order to manipulate them ino a proper balance, we might have come to a stalemate.....OH, THIS IS CAUSING MY HEART TO PALPATATE AS I INVESTIGATE IN ORDER TO SATIATE MY DESIRE TO KNOW.

Great! ..........