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Louise, I wouldn't mind your help at all. In fact, it would be quite nice! Dr. Callender's phone # is 318-233-6022. He's located in Lafayette - I've been to Baton Rouge & New Orleans, but I don't know how far away Lafayette is for you. His address is: 1101 Hewl-Wallace (spelling???) Rd. South, #106, Lafayette, LA, 70508. You probably would want to verify the street name, or I could. If ya want first to get more background on his lecture and his work, if ya send me your home address in a personal e-mail to "[log in to unmask]", I could send ya the WMAGW newsletter where they describe his upcoming lecture and his background/credentials, along with a copy of the lecture itself on tape, which includes a conversation with this young girl both during & after one of her "pd-spells." That way you'd be more familiar with what he talked about and might have better luck convincing him to "chat" or share his experiences in this electronic format with us. Perhaps you could even see the actual video he had showed of this girl. Maybe too, with her permission, copies could be made for those interested (at their own cost, of course) - especially copies for the national pd groups and those pushing for/doing research to study and ponder! Or with the wonder of multimedia and graphics, a short clip from the video showing before/after and the text of his lecture could be put on one of the new PD homepages on the WWW for people to download and play on their own computer. I don't exactly know how to do this, but I've gotten copies of other film clips, like Star Trek, off the web (after someone else put them on) and viewed them on my computer. I know that also e-mail messages can also be sent that contains audio recordings, we used to do it at work. If your computer has a microphone: speech, music, etc., can be recorded and sent as e-mail. If this MCS phenomena is real, and especially since opinion is leaning the direction of environmental triggers with a possible genetic susceptibility, something concrete like this could benefit research. I'm assuming that since he showed a video of one of her spells at his lecture, she has already given permission, at least to some extent, and may not mind it getting around, especially to those who control the research and can help us all hopefully. Just a thought. Thanks for the offer of help, and keep me posted! Wendy