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To those of you who can participate in Tom's study, I highly encourage you to do so. Although I have never met Tom, I discovered his work about a year and a half ago and find it very interesting. It is based on observations that external cues sometimes improve movement in PD. The major question is what percentage of the PD population can benefit from such an approach. Tom's study will give us some data in a controlled experiment. I'm working on a different kind of cueing device. However, our work is complementary. There is much work that needs to be done to understand the enabling mechanism behind the movement improvements. We need to explore the differences in effectiveness in the cueing methods and explore if a combination of methods is of any benefit. Although, these devices are not cures they may provide near term relief. However, I think their greatest benefit may prove to be as test tools in research to study the pathology behind our PD. If Tom's device is found to be effective, it will offer us a relatively low cost adjunt therapy that could significantly improve our quality of life. Phil Gesotti 52/dx 46 > As some of you may know I have been working for a number of years on an > augmented reality device to enable gait in PD victims who have walking > problems of freezing, gait initiation (akinesia) and sustaining gait. We now > have several working prototypes and an NIH grant to fund clinical trials > which are currenly taking place at the University of Washington in Seattle. > The device is in the form of a pair of glasses that the subject wears and the > test involves walking with and without the glasses. Subjects are paid $50 > for their participation. If you are interested contact Suzanne Weghorst at: > (206) 616-1487 ] > Sharon Downing at: [log in to unmask] > or myself, Tom Riess at: Thomasjriess@CScom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn