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I hope that those of us with Parkinson's prioritize our needs with some care when advising the public, and especially, lawmakers in the art and politics of government funded research allocations. 1. Neroprotection. Help from somewhere is necessary to save the cells any of us still have, and what others, apparently still healthy, are about to lose. No one yet knows even how nerve cell groups die in Parkinson's. The double payback from any success in this area is that, how ever any new brain cells may arrive in our head, restored neroprotection would help keep them there. How many Federal dollars are currently being spent for this? What percentage should be? 2. Neroregeneration. Human cell transplantation is only one possible solution. There is some current evidence that some people, even after many years of Parkinson's, still have a supply of dormant brain stem cells that only need somehow to be activated. If this is true, this could be the fastest and safest solution to many of our problems. As to transplantation, some scientists claim that non-human (such as pig) and other biotechnology sources might be a safer and more plentiful source of useful cells. Do we want any tax money at all spent in for research in these areas? What percentage? Ed G ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn