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Dear Ray and Amanda, I too find that I start twitching and jerking when I become emotional. Appropos of Memorial Day, I twitch the most while watching war movies. The intense drama of the battle scenes makes me twitch from one end of the couch to the other. Also, what has been your experience watching "Cinderella Man" and other boxing movies. My muscles twitch as if I was in the ring jabbing and punching. Scientists recently discovered that our brains have "mirror neurons" that trigger when we are empathetic. I never noticed this reaction before PD. The blessing is that when I watch any movie with the least bit of drama, they pack an emotional wallop. Even watching "Dreamer", the rather perdictable horse movie with Kurt Russel and Dakota Fanning proved an emotionally wrenching but curiously rewarding experiemce. I live in dreadful expectation as to what "Cars" and "Over the Hedge" are going to do to me. David >From: rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: "More alive"/Amanda >Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 08:46:42 -0700 > >Yep, I have an overactive brain. Need to be either dead or asleep. > >Or perhaps I am too alive. When I was teaching I had a former cop student >teacher who asked the kids to evaluate him. I thought he was great, but my >kids, who were used to me, told him he needed to be "more alive". He said >he didn't know how he could be more alive. Ray >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Amanda Phillips" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 4:00 PM >Subject: Re: tremors/shaking, Tim > > >>Well, they stop when asleep, so if it could be arranged to keep a little >>bit >>of brain asleep while the rest got on with stuff..... >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>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