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My mom (68, diag 64) has been diagnosed with Parkinsonism with her neurologist leaning more towards Parkinson Plus (corticobasal ganglion degeneration - CBGD). She is experiencing some new trends lately that I have not heard discussed before as long as I have been a member of this list. The first is tongue tremors. As far as I can tell, she has started this - or at least it has become louder and more distinguishable - in the last 4 months or so. At first I thought her teeth were chattering, but as I investigated, I saw that her tongue was actually in a tremor, much as her hand goes into . . . up and down tremors. I am trying to track it more often, but it "seems" to be a constant involuntary activity. This does not affect her eating. The second issue is her tendency to go into fits of hitting. Once she becomes anxious, nervous, bothered, etc., she does go into periods of severe mood swings, directing them at both myself and my father - her care providers. These mood swings completely changes her attitude, she becomes irate and irritable at both of us for no reason - everything we do is wrong. She may go into uncontrollable fits of crying for periods of time, and occasionally, stops crying to laugh, then goes back to crying. When she is in this state, she is starting to hit out at anyone close to her. These are not "soft" hits, but are intentional and direct - aiming for parts of the body that will hurt. When she sees the hits dont hurt, she will make every attempt to pinch or whatever. (There is no problem of this getting out of control at this time.) I am just trying to see if anyone else in the list has experienced this or knows anything about this stage of the disease. Hopefully, someone will have some clue as to what is going on. This is a good and I have learned a lot from being on it. David 46, full time caregiver Louis 73, full time caregiver (2 heart attacks since this all started)