hello all i have noticed three different requests for info on distinguishing PD from other movement disorders such as multiple system atrophy [MSA], and am forwarding the info in separate messages i had already 'dug' these abstracts out of PubMed but have re-labelled them as DX so as to make searching for them again in the archives a bit easier your syber-sibling in archyology janet ps from archy: ----- insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat ----- janet [log in to unmask]