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At 05:34 PM 7/15/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>I am  a new subscriber, and am here on behalf of my wife, now 61, and
>diagnosed about a year ago. She has no tremors but is fast losing fine
>motor control..ability to balance, and therefore walk, and speech is
>becoming mechanical. At times not understandable.
>
>All this resulted, say the neurologists, from contracting ENCEPHALITIS
>when young, leaving the brain scarred.
>
>We would like to contact anyone relating to this "encephalitic" Parkinsons.
>
>Graham Lacey.
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Dear Graham,
  That is a very unusual diagnosis for 1995. She must have been born about 1935.
There have been almost no cobfirmed cases of post-encephaletic PD where the
encephalitis was contracted after the early 1920's.

  A friend [an MD - a psychiatrist rather than a neurologist] had a mother-
in-law with post encephaletic PD. Her husband was a veterans' hospital MD
and won a $250 prize in 1928 for his essay on the ENCEPHALITIS EPIDEMIC which
was history then.  [$250 would about buy a new Ford in '28]

  I would suggest gettng a second opinion from another neurologist, preferably
one with a movement disorder specialty.

Will Johnston in Salisbury, MD

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Subject: Re: Encephalitic Parkinsons
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At 05:34 PM 7/15/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>I am  a new subscriber, and am here on behalf of my wife, now 61, and
>diagnosed about a year ago. She has no tremors but is fast losing fine
>motor control..ability to balance, and therefore walk, and speech is
>becoming mechanical. At times not understandable.
>
>All this resulted, say the neurologists, from contracting ENCEPHALITIS
>when young, leaving the brain scarred.
>
>We would like to contact anyone relating to this "encephalitic" Parkinsons.
>
>Graham Lacey.
>[log in to unmask]
>
>Dear Graham,
  This is a very unusual diagnosis for 1995. Apparently Mrs. Graham
  was born in 1935 or thereabouts. There have been almost no new cases
  attributed to encephalitis since the early 1920's as far as exposure
  or initial onset is concerned.
  A friend [an MD who has PD but is not a neurologist  - a psychiatrist]
  had a mother-in-law with post encephaletic PD and her husband -a
  veterans' hospital MD-won a $250 prize in 1928 for his essay on the
  Encephalitis Epidemic which was history then.
  [note: $250 would about buy a new car in 1928].

   I would recommend a second opinion from another neurologist, preferably a
   movement disorder specialist, if you have not already gotten one.

   Will Johnston  4949 Oakland School Rd  Salisbury MD 21804
   Voice 410-543-0110


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