Dear Barbara Patterson, Thank you very much for your warm welcome and for your useful = information. I am a lawyer whose father suffers from PD. I am working as the = secretary-general of an association of gold and silversmiths. As you see = I am very far from being an expert in PD, but with the help of your = group I expect to obtain more information so that me and my father can = understand better his disease and to maintain our hope in a cure. I wish you the best. Antonio Dias ([log in to unmask]) Ermesinde - Portugal