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Sometimes a piece of paper held in the extended fingers will reveal by amplification that there are indeed tremors. \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: Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:01 AM Subject: Re: Chaos Theory & tremor > Randy, I too have internal tremors and feel like they are sometimes being > suppressed, which I guess they are. Ray > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy L Vinecore" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:27 AM > Subject: Re: Chaos Theory & tremor > > >> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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