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Hi Allen. My name is Claudia Elliott. I've been reading your postings and hearing about you from Louise Rodrigues for awhile now. The question you ask touches on the thing I am most interested in. I am a therapist, and therefore, concentration and focus are everything. There have been periods when I experienced a variety of cognitive deficits--like problems with word retrieval, going blank, flight of ideas (from the dyskenesia). I have tried a variety of things to fix this, and find that my concentration is better in some ways now than it was before, unless I become anxious or overwhelmed. My theory is that in order to create the necessary new synapses, we have to come in from the side door, so to speak--through the right brain. This can involve things like meditation, drawing, playing music--even writing if I have something on my mind. I have learned alot about this from the experiential standpoint by having been in psychoanalysis, but also with the help of the Alexander Technique. The trick is to focus, and then hold it. In addition, balance training has helped--walking a beam, using a balance board. My PD has fortunately progressed slowly--I have the one-sided type. However, I think this focusing thing has really helped. As soon as I experience some deficit, I start working on it. I hope this ideas help. I'd be happy to talk more about it. My address is 1915 N. Wolcott, Chicago, Ill. Phone: 312- 489-3607. Claudia