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Some of us dont present with visible tremors, although at times there is this internal feeling that they are present. I wonder about chaos theory and dyskinesia. \Randy Games to entertain your brain. http://www.stargraphics.com Star Graphics Corp 10943 S Forest Ridge Ln Oregon City, OR 97045 ----- Original Message ----- From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:25 AM Subject: Chaos Theory & tremor > This interested me because of my fascination with chaos theory. Nothing > but > DBS helped my tremors, no meds. Ray > > A chaotic test for Parkinson's > 08 April 2006 > From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. > > > CHAOS theory could help monitor the effectiveness of treatment for > Parkinson's disease and aid in earlier diagnosis, according to physicists > who have developed a method to monitor how much sufferers tremor. > There is still no definitive test to identify Parkinson's disease in its > onset. Now Renat Yulmetyev at Kazan State University in Russia and > colleagues have adapted a statistical technique based on chaos theory, and > used to study earthquake vibrations, to monitor the distinctive > progression > of symptoms such as tremors. > Sixteen people in Canada who had Parkinson's disease held their index > fingers in the path of a laser beam for measurements of tremor frequency > in > their fingers and the team analysed the results. In patients in the early > stages of the disease, the tremor pattern is more chaotic, says Yulmetyev. > As the disease takes hold, the tremors not only become more pronounced, > but > they become much more periodic and regular. Medication with the drug > L-dopa > causes the tremor patterns to become more chaotic again (Physica A, DOI: > 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.077). > From issue 2546 of New Scientist magazine, 08 April 2006, page 21 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn