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My husband, Sid, wanted his brain to be donated exclusively for PD research and to that end, he signed up for it to go to the Parkinson Disease Brain Bank at Vanderbilt University. He believed that as an experimental patient at NIH for nearly 20 years, his brain could be very helpful for research. He was often the first patient to be tried on most of today's current PD drugs as well as many others that were never approved. He particularly hoped to interest a leading research in studying the long term effects of the very powerful drugs taken by most PWP. Sadly, in the three and one-half years since his death, I have been unsuccessful in getting any researcher's interest in using Sid's brain for ANY research. I recently had his brain transferred to Professor Peter Jenner's brain bank in London, hoping for better luck there. On this list there has been much written about the long term consequences of taking these drugs. It occurred to me, that if we worked together we might have enough influence to get such a study initiated. Reactions? Donna Dorros, CG for Sid (dec. 1993) 68/30, Gaithersburg, MD [log in to unmask] /**********************************************************/ /* DDorros */ /* [log in to unmask] */ /* */ /* Sent from Capital City Cyberlink */ /**********************************************************/