[log in to unmask] wrote about heredity/pd/ld to Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Rw> Subject: heredity/pd/ld Re: ADHD/LD I am very interested. I also worked with students with attention deficits and various degrees of learning disabilities; Special Educ. Adapted P. E. As my motor skills and pd symptoms progressed, I was aware of an awkwardness in gross motor skills. I also feel that it is a chemical imbalance which when properly understood and treated, it will bring control of the symptoms. Yes, I have a son with ADHD characteristics. Very gifted in the area of electronics. He was on ritalin, he is 23 years old and off all medicines. In my generation there is yet anyone to be diagnosed with pd, in the family there is pd. My mother had it, and her female cousin on her mother's side had it. > Duvoisin's lecture on heredity and pd, Sounds interesting, how do I get a line on this Lucile Wright, I am amazed at the parallel. It seems too much for coincidence, it is probably genetic as far as a predisposition for a vulnerability of the CNS is concerned. Joann Betts (Using my husband's account) [log in to unmask] ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12