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There has been a great deal of discussion lately on "loss of concentration". PD is life in the slow lane, and all activities take longer and several confounding factors arise such as more time allows more opportunity for distraction, frustration with taking so long, using planning to have minimum time between activities and then getting several activities ahead and forgetting where we were. In addition, PD and L-Dopa have depression as a side effect which during a fugue(is this the correct term for a period of depression?), one can be more easily distracted as well as more sensitive to things going wrong. The coping tricks that I have seen here seem to be very good and there were several good areas for further investigation (is easily distracted/forgetfulness a symptom or even a indicator of future PD like depression? Is it treatable? Is there some systematic investigation? Wendy, Nancy, Debbie or Colman Mullin [log in to unmask]